A bilingual chronicle of a sweeping artistic practice that relates history, memory and identity to the lived diasporic experience.

Presented in French and English, this is the first monograph dedicated to Moridja Kitenge Banza (b. 1980), a Canadian visual artist of Congolese origin.

Known for dynamic works shaped by the places where he has lived and worked, KitengeBanza's art is a subversive blend of reality and fiction that questions and challenges discourses of power while opening new spaces for marginalized histories.

Chronicling a multidisciplinary practice that includes painting, photography, video, drawing, andinstallation, this volume presents a comprehensive outline of Kitenge Banza's artistic practice. Texts by curators, historians, and theorists focus on the geopolitics, culture, religion, and iconography of the artist's lived context, accompanied by more than 100 artworks.

Whether confronting the impacts of resource extraction in his native Democratic Republic of Congo or in his adopted home of Quebec, or recasting histories shaped by religion, violence, and colonialism, Kitenge Banza's work explores how his personal narrative is intertwined with the past. His reappropriation of the codes, customs, and conventions associated with religious,cultural, political, social, and economic systems serve to underscore the contradictions that construct his identities.

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La chronique bilingue d'une vaste pratique artistique qui relie histoire, memoire et identite une experience diasporique vecue.

Presentee en francais et en anglais, cette monographie est la premiere etre consacree Moridja Kitenge Banza (ne en 1980), un artiste visuel canadien d'origine congolaise.

Connu pour ses uvres dynamiques faconnees par les lieux o il a vecu et travaille, l'art de Kitenge Banza est un alliage subversif de realite et de fiction qui met en cause et au defi les discours du pouvoir tout en ouvrant de nouveaux espaces pour les recits marginalises.

Documentant une pratique multidisciplinaire qui inclut la peinture, la photographie, la video, le dessin et l'installation, le present ouvrage propose un portrait d'ensemble de la pratique artistique de Kitenge Banza. Il reunit des textes de commissaires, d'historiennes et de specialistes portant sur la geopolitique, la culture, la religion et l'iconographie issues du cadre de vie de l'artiste, et illustres par plus de 100 uvres.

Confrontant les impacts de l'extraction de ressources, que ce soit dans la Republique democratique du Congo o il est ne ou au Quebec, sa terre d'adoption, ou reconfigurant des recits faconnes par la religion, la violence et le colonialisme, Kitenge Banza explore dans son travail la maniere dont son recit personnel est lie son passe. Sa reappropriation des codes, des coutumes et des conventions associes des systemes religieux, culturels, politiques, sociaux et economiques sert mettre en lumiere les contradictions qui construisent ses identites.