The concept of transformation as a condition for communal and personal healing is at the heart of contemporary black consciousness. We are particularly interested in how this concept - if not necessity -  is explored by visual artists through visuality and materiality, and through reappropriating narratives and decolonial iterations. In this context, transformation endorses a spiritual, political and aesthetic dimension. The artworks we have selected for this project express these three constitutive aspects in a synergic and coherent way. Addressing the many ruptures, aggressions and erasures in black histories, or encountered by the black body, the selected artists propose visual narratives that display altering or amending processes that allow the information of new imaginaries. Here, we understand healing as restorative visual gestures or experiences that allow new readings of contemporary afro-consciousness formation. Central in this proposition, the installation of the recent photographic series ‘Primordial Earth’ by Léonard Pongo sets the framework of the exhibition in which bold visual performances meet texture and versatility. The spiritual dimension of the selected artworks has also been very crucial for us and our selection. It has been a natural choice to select artworks or projects that employ photography or video as medium. Indeed, in regard to the theme we are exploring, the image becomes a transformation intermediary or agent, especially when presented in thoughtful ways. We also selected artists whose work addresses the concept of transformation as applied to personal and/or collective grievances that are often the catalysts of the visual processes in view. Every artwork invites the viewer to experience beyond mere contemplation, and to get carried by the transformative dynamics that each artist proposes to us or confronts us with.