Ced’art Tamasala (1986, Likasi) is an artist and co-founder of CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise). Tamasala’s drawings and sculptures have been exhibited internationally. At a conference co-organised by the Ruskin School of Art at the Mori Art Museum in 2018, Tamasala called for the repatriation of Congolese artworks held in museum collections around the world to the plantations of the DRC.

CATPC (‘Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise’ or Congolese Plantation Workers Art League) is an art cooperative of plantation workers from Lusanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 2014, with well-known environmental activist René Ngongo as one of its co-founders. CATPC makes art to generate global awareness about the historic and present-day position of plantation workers. In doing so, it aims to generate the means necessary to transform depleted plantations back into forests for the benefit of the community, providing local food security, increasing biodiversity and mitigating global climate change. In 2017, the New York Times called CATPC’s solo exhibition at the SculptureCenter ‘the most challenging show of the year’. (www.catpc.org)