First London solo exhibition by Congolese-Canadian artist Moridja Kitenge Banza, with new paintings from her Chiromancie series.
Moridja Kitenge Banza is showing at Almas Art Foundation from 11 September to 31 October, his first London solo exhibition. It's curated by N'Goné Fall and presented in collaboration with the Defise Foundation.
The show debuts a new body of work from Banza's ongoing Chiromancie series. Each painting acts as a metaphor for the palm of the hand, reading as an abstract landscape that opens onto colonial history, resource extraction, the memory of place, and the political construction of territories, all rooted in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From there, the work reaches into wider conversations around environmental justice, colonial memory, surveillance, restitution, and the human cost of the technologies that shape everyday life. Banza describes it as a geo-poetic reappropriation of space.
Two quotes from the artist sum up the distance he's working with: "Beauty is what distance allows us to see," he writes, and "History is what the land refuses to forget."
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You'll find the exhibition at Almas Art Foundation, Arch 28, Old Union Yard Arches, 229 Union Street, London SE1 0LR, running from 11 September through to 31 October. Entry is free.
Date
26 October – 31 October
Price
Free
Recommended Age
+14 years
