The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

Patrick Bongoy

Phoenix

Lot Closed

February 22, 05:28 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Patrick Bongoy

Congolese

b.1980

Phoenix

recycled inner rubber tube on board

155 by 150 by 31cm., 61 by 59 by 12¼in.

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This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Patrick Bongoy (b. 1980, Democratic Republic of Congo) is an artist whose work speaks in response to the global challenge of environmental pollution. Drawing from his roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he explores the irony of contemporary urban degradation masked as development through his mixed media installations. Through the recovery of waste materials such as inner tubes from vehicle tyres, industrial packaging and textiles combined with paint and African fabric, Bongoy repurposes and reinterprets what others discard.

Phoenix expresses Bongoy’s personals association with the DRC’s wounded past and the efforts made generations later to live with yet move beyond these traumatic past events. Things that cannot and must not be forgotten, nor can they be erased. In this work, Bongoy ventures towards re-constructing and re-navigating the way these histories can serve progress.