Léonard Pongo
Visual Artist working between BE & DRC

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Latest news here, updated regularly.

Current:
ArtReview’s “Future Greats” 2025: Selected by Roger Ballen with “The Uncanny”

25 Arts Seconde : Soluble & Simulacrum
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France
January 17, 2025 – February 22, 2025.

Festival du Jeu de Paume 2e édition : Paysages Mouvants (curated by Jeanne Mercier), Jeu de Paumes, Paris, France, February 07, 2025 – March 23, 2025.

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, USA, February 26–August 3, 2025

Upcoming:
Tales from The Source showing at:
Afropolitan Festival, Bozar Brussels, Belgium 02-03/03/2025

The Uncanny, my first Monograph published by Gostbooks is out
You can order a signed copy from me via email or directly on Gostbooks website

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Projects:

Tales from the Source is a medium-length movie engaging a visual dialogue with the varied land of the DRC and its ancestral narratives.

Next show: Afropolitan Festival, Bozar Brussels, Belgium 02-03/03/2025

Primordial Earth is a mixed-media installation that presents the landscape of the DRC as a character with its own will and power


The Uncanny is a long term photo project in Congo’s urban centers

Homepage image Uncanny

The Necessary Evil is an experimental short on Faith & Power


Commissions:

Coming sometime, update always in progress

SAHEL
/ICRC

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