About me
Who am I? How is it that I ended up being born in Barcelona? What is my story? What does it mean to be a
black woman in a society where you are "the diferent one"? How to fnd answers? How to empower
yourself? I confess that, through art, I am fnding answers to all these questions.
My name is Bianca Batlle-Nguema. My father was from Barcelona, my mother from Equatorial Guinea. I was
born in Barcelona in 1980. I am a mixed-race woman in a white society, in search of my identity. A search that
is common in the majority of Afro-descendants, fruit of the Diaspora. We know where we were born, but our
skin, our hair, the curves of our body, our voice... everything in us speaks of a long path traveled by our
ancestors, a path that goes back to another continent, to another color, to another vision of life, another
paradigm, other beliefs, an origin that has its roots in the nebula of African collective memory. My pieces
help me see myself, contemplate the shapes of my body, become aware of the color of my skin, deeply feel
where my soul comes from. My paintings help me understand the path all my African ancestors have
walked, the battles they have fought. I feel like, in every brush-stroke I take, I am honoring my predecessors,
honoring their struggle, recognizing their extraordinary strength and, ultimately, contributing to the healing
of their trauma.
