The jungle is my church 1

Series TitleLusanga "ex: Leverville"

Artist Kongo Astronauts (Congolese and French, founded 2013)

Date2015

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 20 11/16 × 27 7/16 inches (52.55 × 69.69 cm)

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

Object number2024.50.7

Edition/State/Proofed. 3/5 of 5+2 AP

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

DescriptionThis colored image shows a person in a golden scrap-made astronaut suit in the middle of a thick jungle. The figure is stood on a thick downed tree branch. Behind him is a cloudless foggy white sky.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Cité International des Arts, Paris. “Entrelacs/Interlaced,” June – July 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 2015 and printed in 2024.

Published References

Neural, “Eléonore Hellio: Eternal Network in Kinshasa.” In Neural 49 – Off-Western, (Bari, Italy: Neural, 2014).

Michel Ekeba, Eléonore Hellio, and Ralph Borland, “Afrique, l’Espace.” In Espace(s) 20 – Mythologies Individuelles, (Paris: l’Observatoire de l’Espace, 2021).

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, “Kinshasa Chroniques,” (Montreuil, France: Les Editions De L’Oeil, 2019).

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