Benedicta Bibuku

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Help Me Remember Home 


(2024 - ongoing) How do we define home? Where do the children of the diaspora feel they belong? How did immigrant parents recreate home in countries that did not share their language, customs, or rituals? These are the questions that Help Me Remember Home seeks to explore.

This project examines how different individuals remember home—whether through cooking the same dishes their families made back home or, in my case, through the way my mother holds on to home by always wearing her kitambala (Lingala for ‘scarf of the head’), no matter where she lives. For her, the scarf is a way of remembering her identity. Its colourful wax prints evoke memories of old musicians, religious figures, and traditional Congolese graphic design.

For me, seeing my mother wear her scarf—just as she did 15 years ago—represents the continuity of a ritual I observed throughout my childhood. It is a ritual I never participated in, yet it reminds my mother of her ancestral land and me of the person who has always been my first home.
Digital Print on Cotton 
30 x 45 cm

Image transfer on Leather