Moridja Kitenge Banza

Moridja Kitenge Banza be a visual artist dem born insyd Kinshasa, Congo insyd 1980. He currently dey live den work insyd Montreal, Quebec. Ein artworks employ a variety of media wey dey include drawing, painting, photography den installation.

He graduate from de Académie des beaux-arts de Kinshasa den l’École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole.  Insyd 2010, na dem award Moridja Kitenge Banza de first prize for de Biennale of Contemporary African Art, DAK’ART insyd Sénégal. Na he be among de winners of de 2020 Sobey Art Award. Ein work be represented by Hugues Charbonneau Art Gallery insyd Montréal.

 Artistic approach 
Banza ein artistique practice dey extend to a variety of media wey dey include painting, photography, film, drawing, collage, installation den performance. Dis diversity sanso dey reflect de plurality of identities of de artists einself. Ein work dey use different artistic strategies of staging, appropriation den irony make e critically approach issues around memory, culture den history.
 Artworks 
De artworks of Banza be represented insyd various collections wey dey include de National Gallery of Canada, de Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, de Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as chaw corporate art collections wey dey include de TD Bank Corporate Art Collection den de Bank of Montréal Collection.

 Christ Pantocrator series (2017-) 
De Christ Pantocrator work dey form a series of paintings wey dey superimpose representations of African masks over images of Byzantine Christian iconography of Christ Pantocrator. Thru dis work, Kitenge Banza dey combine traditional religious aspects of Congolese beliefs plus Christianity. De paintings insyd de series divert de sacred symbols make e reveal de colonial process wey lead to de theft of African ritual objects by Western museums, as well as de exploitation of dese objects insyd de context of modern art.

 Authentique series (2017-) 
De photographs insyd de series Authentique dey feature de artist wey dey stage einself insyd ein Montréal backyard, plus works insyd de Christ Pantocrator series dem decorate plus colored wax fabric.

Na dem view critical interpretation of dese compositions dis series as a commentary for de complex cultural identities insyd wich immigrant populations for navigate, as well as a critical look for contemporary den historical representations of African identity.

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 External links 

 Official website

Category:1980 births
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo people
Category:Human
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo artists
Category:Immigrants to Canada
Category:21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo painters
Category:21st-century Canadian painters
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo emigrants to Canada
Category:Artists wey komot Montreal
Category:People wey komot Kinshasa