Untitled [-5]

Series TitleSCrashed_Capital.exe

Artist Kongo Astronauts (Congolese and French, founded 2013)

Date2021

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 39 7/16 × 59 inches (100.17 × 149.86 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number2024.50.3

Edition/State/Proofed. 1/3 of 3 + 2 AP 1

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

DescriptionThis colored image features a person wearing a found-object golden spacesuit standing in alleyway filled with merchant stalls. The merchant tables are crowded with hardware and metal objects akin to those that make up the suit of the central figure.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

International Biennale of Digital Art, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada. “METAMORPHOSIS-MUTATION,” December 2022 – February 2023.

Provenance

Kongo Astronauts, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024 [1];

Purchased from Kongo Astronauts, through Axis Gallery, West Orange, New Jersey, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

NOTES:

[1] This image was captured in 2021 and printed in 2024.

Published References

Hanna B. Hölling, "Performing the “Mask”: Kongo Astronauts on Postcolonial Entanglements." In Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care, Volume I, edited by Hanna B. Hölling, Julia P. Feldman, and Emilie Magnin, (London: Routledge, 2023).

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