Name/Title
Chiromancie #12 Goma No. 2Entry/Object ID
2021.09.01Description
Moridja Kitenge Banza (b. 1980) is a Montreal-based artist from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He holds degrees from l’Académie des beaux-arts de Kinshasa, l’École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole, and the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty of l’Université de La Rochelle.
Banza’s work concentrates on the tension between his Congolese heritage and the legacy of colonialism, often subverting narratives by blending traditional symbolism with western imagery. Using a wide range of mediums, Banza aims to provoke dialogue to discuss both personal and collective identity and memory. For example,
in Chiromancie #12 Goma No. 2 (2021), the use of sand becomes a material reference to the unpaved streets where he spent most of his time playing as a child. It is also used to simulate the texture of lava and allude to Goma, a Congolese city troubled by political instability and a recent volcano eruption.
Banza’s work has been featured internationally in galleries such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, Musée Dauphinois (Grenoble, France), at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Rosklide, Danemark), Gallery and Ngbk (Berlin, Germany). In 2010, he received the Léopold Senghor Grand Prize of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, DAK’ART for his video Hymne à nous and his installation work De 1848 à nos jours.
https://www.moridjakitenge.com/Artwork Details
Medium
acrylic and sand on canvasMade/Created
Artist
Banza, Kitenge MoridjaDate made
2021Dimensions
Height
121.9 cmWidth
121.9 cm