Untitled [Aisle of Dreams]

Series TitleAfter Schengen

Artist Kongo Astronauts (Congolese and French, founded 2013)

Date2019

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 43 15/16 × 59 inches (111.6 × 149.86 cm)

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

Object number2024.50.5

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

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

DescriptionThis colored image features a person in a scrap-made astronaut suit stood on the wing of a cargo plane. Rolling green hills and a blue cloudy sky make up the background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. “Congo Gravitational Waves // A Metadigital & Tantalean Tale,” 2022.

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 2019 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).

Dominique Malaquais, "Anti-Pathos." African Arts 53, no. 3 (2020), doi:10.1162/afar_a_00532.

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