Dear Kinshasa With Love Exhibit

Dear Kinshasa With Love

Is a proposed sculpture and photo exhibit honoring the Congolese tenacity and joie de vivre which is best encapsulated by Les Sapeurs, a Congolese cultural phenomenom, whose proud icons embrace extravagance in face of dire poverty, corruption and civil war. No matter if a Sapeur is a shoemaker, gravedigger or carpenter, his/her "dressing up" is a flamboyant social-political sauntering protest that brings a sense of meaning to their lives and simultaneously puts a smile on those who cross their path.

The exhibit would include 8 Sapeur environmental portraits which were made in Ndjili's backstreet labrynth, the same district in Kinshasa where I wandered and bargained for random scrap metal pieces and car parts to create my sculptures in which 8 would accompany the prints in celebration of Congolese persistence to survive despite all odds.

In 2019, I was honored to be the only expat artist with my Sapeur prints, along with 3 other Congolese artists (Eddy being one of them) as part of a group show, KINinspire, at TMBank's exhibition hall, Le Monde des Flamboyants, in 2019.

In 2017 my Sapeur prints and Ndjili sculptures (along with my Latitude Zero fine art collection and Eddy's larger than life sculptures) adorned the walls and inner sanctum of the Cultural Center, Texaf Bilembo, in Kinshasa for a TOTAL Oil soiree honoring their important clients.

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