Book Launch: Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi

The drawings, photo series and alternative cartographies in the atlas acknowledge both the city’s wounds and its cultural vitality: tracing fear and affection, displacement and belonging, neighbourhood economies, night-time rhythms, rituals and personal landmarks. These poetic gestures resist being pinned down to coordinates, but unveil a constellation of interconnected worlds where memory, labour, creativity, pain and resilience meet, allowing to imagine potential futures from this point forward.

The atlas is developed in the context of the 8th and 9th Lubumbashi Biennale and has been launched during the opening events at Picha in October 2026. During the Dutch book launch at Framer Framed, three of its editors reflect on this year’s biannual, the urban reality of Lubumbashi and the process and stories of this enriching subjective atlas. Lubumbashi is not a city to be easily navigated, but a city to be lived, loved, hated, remembered and constantly transformed.

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