Luna Mahoux

Biography
Based in Brussels, Luna Mahoux is a Belgian artist working across film, photography, and installation. Her practice explores invisibilized Afro-diasporic narratives through a dialogue between personal archives, vernacular images, and popular internet culture. Drawing from intimate and collective histories, she creates visual essays that question memory, the circulation of images, and the politics of representation. A graduate of La Cambre in Brussels, she joined Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing in 2023. Her first documentary, The Other Queen of Memphis, was selected in competition at Cinéma du Réel at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work has been presented at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris, KANAL – Centre Pompidou in Brussels, FOMU in Antwerp, Photo Elysée in Lausanne, and Basel Social Club. She received the FOMU tiff – Emerging Belgian Photography Prize in 2023 and the Fintro Prize in 2024.

Residency project
At La Becque, Luna Mahoux will develop her first fiction film, produced by 444 Production. Combining writing, research, and reflection, the project will explore questions of memory, identity, family, displacement, and belonging across different geographical and temporal contexts, drawing on personal histories while moving towards fiction. During the residency, Mahoux will further develop her research through encounters and exchanges with Ethiopian and Eritrean communities in Switzerland, while building connections with the local artistic scene across music, sound, image, and performance. A central strand of the project will examine relationships between illness, the body, and Blackness, exploring how illness is experienced and represented through Black bodies and questioning the medical, social, and cultural systems through which these bodies are perceived and treated.