Name/Title
Chiromancie #14 n°9Entry/Object ID
2023.12.01Description
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, 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.
More frequently, the artist has used his work to allude to human environmental impacts though activities like mining and other resource extracting techniques., using colour and form to represent the changing topography of the land and asking us to consider our own global ecology.
Banza’s 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.Artwork Details
Medium
acrylic on wood panelMade/Created
Artist
Banza, Kitenge MoridjaDate made
2023