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Jean KATAMBAYI MUKENDI

  • Jean KATAMBAYI MUKENDI

    (Born in 1974. Congo)

    Simultium, 2009
    Yllux, 2012
    Lester, 2011
    Simulhom-Simultium (Physionomie) , 2009
    Simulhom-Simultium (Bornes), 2009

These sculptures' equilibrium is fragile, and yet they stand. Although their shape is “random” (aléatoire), as the artist would say, the heterogeneous components composing them were not chosen by chance. Since his childhood, the artist has been inspired by all the tools, packages, and instruments he saw used in his town in Congo, where the whole economy still relies on the extraction of copper, an element necessary for the functioning of electrical circuits and digital screens. And yet in his city of Lubumbashi there are electricity outages on a regular basis and the available copper is of a rather poor quality.

Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Yllux, 2012, cardboard, electrical wires, batteries, 102×119×93 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, trampoline Antwerp and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Yllux, 2012, cardboard, electrical wires, batteries, 179×50×51 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, trampoline Antwerp and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Courtesy of the Artist and trampoline, Antwerp

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