The jungle is my church 2

Series TitleLusanga "ex: Leverville"

Artist Kongo Astronauts (Congolese and French, founded 2013)

Date2015

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage, sheet, mount: 20 11/16 × 27 1/2 inches (52.55 × 69.85 cm)

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

Object number2024.50.8

Edition/State/Proofed. 1/5 of 5+2 AP

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

DescriptionThis colored image features a person wearing a found-object golden spacesuit stood in front of the corrugated metal door of a brick building. Dilapidated rocky steps, littered with sprouting weeds, lead up the figure. Green jungle trees against a foggy sky can be seen in the background.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

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

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