Image: Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kimbembele Ihunga (1992) Courtesy of The Museum of Everything

This exhibition brings together two artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sammy Baloji and Bodys Isek Kingelez, whose work shares an exploration of warped colonial legacies alongside visions of future living. Whilst Kingelez makes precise, delicate and detailed models offering imagined propositions for a vibrant cityscape, Baloji draws our eye to people living in the city today and moments of utopia that exist in the day-to-day urban fabric.

On display are photographs from the series Urban Now, produced between 2013 and 2015 in collaboration with urban anthropologist Filip de Boeck. These photographs address the question of architecture in Kinshasa and the overlaps and disconnects between multiple visions of the city: from crumbling colonial infrastructure to airbrushed neoliberal futures manifested across billboards and advertisements. They ask us to think about interior spaces as affective landscapes and spheres for the imagination, which are simultaneously a part of the rest of the city and somehow apart from it.

This exhibition is part of the Director’s Programme for Glasgow International, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art.

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