Especially for her first exhibition at Duende Art Projects, Hadassa Ngamba has created six glass-shaped sculptures. Made in porcelain, the transformative process of their creation for the artist symbolizes her ambition to change paradigms. A plan of the ideal colonial city, published by the Belgian ministry of Colonies in 1946, has been transposed on these sculptures. Many Congolese metropolises, such as the capital Kinshasa, were developed according to this plan, with a railway as the horizontal axis and placing industry central, a lay-out highlighting the exploitive character of the colonization. Ngamba has reconfigured this plan, challenging capitalism, and offering a fresh perspective. For the artist, the wine glass, made to toast, is a metaphor for several alliances, between Congo and Belgium, but especially between the present and the past. Libations to the ancestors create the alliance with her roots, to act with fairness and strength in the present.