...Francesco Bonami Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 wipimrii The Work of Bodys Isek Kingelez Journal of Contemporary African Art "It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had...

... 2001) and Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948 2015). Moké became known for his painted nightlife scenes while Kingelez built incredible models of imaginary buildings and cities from used materials. Naidoo Nka 35 Souvenir d enfance (Childhood memory), 2020. Acrylique et paillettes sur toile, 135 x 200 cm...

... was in charge of the special exhi• ample windows. bition Iconografias Metropoli• Bodys Isek Kingelez from Kin...

...” inspiring Africans squares, houses, and burial sites grouped according “to convert material constructions into social posi- to themes like “Encounters” and “Intimacy.” Each tion and prestige.”7 Bodys Isek Kingelez, Projet pour le Kinshasa du Troisième Millénaire, 1997. Wood, cardboard, paper...

..., it may rather amount to the impossibility of any form of dissensus as the condition of possibility for the redistribution Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kimbembele Ihunga, 1994. Paper, cardboard, foam board, plastic, and found materials. 130 x 185 x 320 cm. Courtesy CAAC The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva. © Bodys...

.... Spring/Summer 1998 Nka«43 Bodyslsek Kingelez, Miami, 1993, mixed media, photo: Werner Maschmann tion, placing works by the same go-washed perpetual nighttime im• cation with political art dovetails artists on different floors, so that ages...

... the customary role of the western Kingelez, Kimbembele ihunga-Kimbevile (1994), Constant, New anthropologist studying non-western peoples. The installation, Babylon (1956-1974), and Yona Friedman, Spatial City (1958- ID: A Journey through a Solid Sea by the collective...

..., David the speaking position of the producer of ideas is to me a political Goldblatt, Andreas Seikman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Atlas Group, Lisl action. I really do not regret a single thing that we did. Ponger, Kendell Geers, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Black Audio Film Collective or Trinh T. Minh-ha...

... does a magnificent job of reading Africa Oladele Bamgboye, Bodys Isek Kingelez, plus large Remix from the evidence of what it "looked" like suites of David Goldblatt's photographs (more in Johannesburg. But I am not convinced that he than forty images), an entire room of Tshibumba...