Moridja Kitenge Banza

A bilingual chronicle of a sweeping artistic practice that relates history, memory and identity to the lived diasporic experience.Presented in French and English, this is the first monograph dedicated to Moridja Kitenge Banza (b. 1980), a Canadian visual artist of Congolese origin.Known for dynamic works shaped by the places where he has lived and worked, Kitenge
Banza’s art is a subversive blend of reality and fiction that questions and challenges discourses of power while opening new spaces for marginalized histories.Chronicling a multidisciplinary practice that includes painting, photography, video, drawing, and
installation, this volume presents a comprehensive outline of Kitenge Banza''s artistic practice. Texts by curators, historians, and theorists focus on the geopolitics, culture, religion, and iconography of the artist’s lived context, accompanied by more than 100 artworks.Whether confronting the impacts of resource extraction in his native Democratic Republic of Congo or in his adopted home of Québec, or recasting histories shaped by religion, violence, and colonialism, Kitenge Banza’s work explores how his personal narrative is intertwined with the past. His reappropriation of the codes, customs, and conventions associated with religious,
cultural, political, social, and economic systems serve to underscore the contradictions that construct his identities.--La chronique bilingue d’une vaste pratique artistique qui relie histoire, mémoir
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