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Jeremie Libenge
Congo - Kinshasa
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Artist highlights
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 70.9x49.2in
About this artwork
As in a convex mirror, the images become entangled in the shoe. If only the shoes could speak, if we could lend him the words ...
"My happiness, my misfortune is not so far from me, near me there is justice and injustice you just have to see well you would know what is happening around me, who laments me, who enchants me is reflected on my leather. "
This series of work testifies, questions, denounces and makes a judgment of the values on the characters… and the military roles. Offensive or defensive the shoe is the apology.
Here the leather of the boots lets the image of a woman in exodus in the foreground shine as in a mirror, leaving behind a landscape of rubble. her This shoe questions the true identity and denounces the genocidaires This work translates the story of the suffering of Beni caused by the genocide and violence over decades sources of forced exodus in eastern Congo.
"My happiness, my misfortune is not so far from me, near me there is justice and injustice you just have to see well you would know what is happening around me, who laments me, who enchants me is reflected on my leather. "
This series of work testifies, questions, denounces and makes a judgment of the values on the characters… and the military roles. Offensive or defensive the shoe is the apology.
Here the leather of the boots lets the image of a woman in exodus in the foreground shine as in a mirror, leaving behind a landscape of rubble. her This shoe questions the true identity and denounces the genocidaires This work translates the story of the suffering of Beni caused by the genocide and violence over decades sources of forced exodus in eastern Congo.
Jeremie Libenge
Congo - Kinshasa
Credentials
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« The buffalo dies and leaves its hide, the man dies, leaving his mark and reputation. -Unknown »
Jeremie Libenge is an artist based in Congo-Kinshasa whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in Cameroon and China. Through the imagery of the shoe, he explores the taste, way of life, eccentricities, sufferings, and happiness of people. Libenge's contemporary works are created with an artistic approach that fuses still-life with symbolism. His preferred mediums are acrylics and pastels on canvas.
