Patrick Bongoy at Southern Guild on Sanlam Arts Round Up

by Philip | Sep 2, 2022 | Featured | 0 comments

Patrick Bongoy at Southern Guild

Patrick Bongoy has an exhibition titled ‘Unseen Dimensions of the Known’ at Southern Guild and on the Sanlam Arts Round Up on Fine Music Radio, he talks us through this striking and engaging show.

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Patrick tells us where he’s from and the fact that his life has always been about art since childhood. He studied fine art, and then moved into fashion. His interest in the

rehabilitation in the DRC in 2006 is what lead him back into fine art. His work is a reflection on “who we are” and hopefully starts a conversation about the realms of possibility.

Materiality comes up and specifically his use of rubber inner tubes. This tough and rough material takes on a surprising sensitivity and sensuality that you would never expect

See Patrick Bongoy – Unseen Dimensions of the Known at Southern Guild

Bongoy’s work to date has largely reinterpreted the ongoing human and environmental erosion, violent economic extraction, forced migration and exploitation in his native DRC. Unseen Dimensions of the Known extends towards themes of wider resonance with the human condition, beyond the physical aspects of our identities, and what personal or collective liberation and fulfilment of our purpose means. Bongoy continues to create an innovative visual language with rubber and hessian, and to engage in collaboration once more with South African poet Malika Ndlovu.

WHAT: Patrick Bongoy – Unseen Dimensions of the Known
WHERE: Southern Guild, Silo 5, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001
WHEN: 4 August to 29 September 2022 | Gallery hours: Mon to Fri 09h00 – 17h30, 10h00 – 14h00
INFO: T +27 21 461 2856 | E southernguild@theguildgroup.co.za | Visit | Instagram: southernguildgallery | Facebook: SouthernGuild

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