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The Uncanny

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Léonard Pongo

Léonard Pongo is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels and the DRC. The Uncanny is a long-term project that the artist began in 2011. Through these photographs, he explores daily life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the series, Pongo has shot in and around the Provinces of Kinshasa, Katanga and in Kasai occidental. The artist writes, that the series "began from a need to live in the country" and experience daily life rather than "trying to analyse and explain." His photography acknowledges Congo as "a complex and polysemous environment." The project has earned him international awards and recognition.
Artist
Léonard Pongo
(Belgian, active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, b. 1988)
Title
The Uncanny
Date
2011
Medium
Carbon pigment print
Dimensions
23 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. image
Credit
Sara Guyer and Scott Straus Contemporary African Art Initiative made possible by the Straus Family Foundation
Accession No.
2020.30.3
Classification
Photographs
Geography
Democratic Republic of Congo

Related

2020, sold by the artist, Léonard Pongo (Barumbu, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection." Madison, WI: Regents to the University of Wisconsin System and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023. p. 40 , cat. no. 13

  • Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 9/5/2023–12/23/2023

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