Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 17 February 2018

Contemporary Art

Sold for

ZAR 79 576
Lot 45
  • Patrick Bongoy; Revenants II: Reluctant Travellers Transforming into Outsiders Carrying as Much as We Bear


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 79 576

About this Item

Congolese 1980-
Revenants II: Reluctant Travellers Transforming into Outsiders Carrying as Much as We Bear
2017
recycled rubber on fibreglass cast
height: 182cm

Notes

"This work speaks to the movement of displaced peoples, forced into ongoing migration and evicted from their space of belonging by war, corruption and the erosion of various resources. [...]

These reluctant travellers will suffer trauma, both visible and invisible losses as they are transformed into outsiders and aliens. [...] And if they were to return, what will they be…even if that were possible?

Damaged, polluted and remade – this journey and its hostile environments transforms a person, their whole being [...]"

Patrick Bongoy, 2016, [Online] http://ebonycurated.com/the-revenants-ii/ [11 January 2018].

Exhibited

Ebony Curated, Cape Town, Where Are We? Where Are We Going? 26 April to 26 May 2017.

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