Tag: Kinshasa
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Steve Bandoma, Congolese visual artist
“MA CULTURE C’EST MON PHYSIQUE, MON ART C’EST MA MÉTA-PHYSIQUE.” – Steve Bandoma, African Arts Institute (AFAI, 2010) The following post was originally published on the ‘African Contemporary Art Now‘ Wordpress site (15.09.2014) and introduces Congolese visual artist Steve Bandoma (b. 1981) – a graduate in Fine Arts from Kinshasa, whose portfolio of work presents a powerful critique on key issues relating…
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Kinshasa: a ‘site of dreams’ for contemporary visual artists
“It is a site of dreams, where dreams encounter each other and become a single body. However, on the level of our own experience of that urban environment, once one plunges into the life of the city and participates in it, it inevitably diversifies and becomes multiple.” – Extract from an interview with Vincent Lombume Kalimasi…
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Return of the Rudeboy: Ska, Swagger and ‘Sapologie’ at Somerset House
After reading Sean O’Hagan’s thought-provoking preview of the ‘Return of the Rudeboy’ exhibition at Somerset House in London – titled, ‘Rude Boys: Shanty Town to Savile Row’ (The Guardian/Observer, 24th May 2014) – I placed this event quite high on my list of top 10 “must see” summer showcases, and managed to get along to…
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