Léonard Pongo
Visual Artist working between BE & DRC
Current:
25 Arts Seconde : Soluble & Simulacrum
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France
January 17, 2025 – February 22, 2025.
Upcoming:
Tales from The Source showing at:
– Festival en ville, Brussels, Belgium, 31/01/2025
– Afropolitan Festival, Bozar Brussels, Belgium 02-03/03/2025
Primordial Earth showing at:
– 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
Tales from the Source film première:
– International Première at Doc Lisboa 2024 22 October & 25 October 2024
– German Première at DOK Leipzig 31 October, 01 & 02 November 2024
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
Reviews
- Photobook Journal: Review by Steve Harp
- De Standaard: Het unheimliche van Congo door de ogen van topfotograaf Léonard Pongo
- PhMuseum: “Jumping on the stream of consciousness” by C. Pantall
- The Guardian ‘Bigger than life’: exploring the Democratic Republic of the Congo – in pictures “
- Huck: A Dreamlike Journey Into The Democratic Republic Of Congo
- Blind Magazine: Congo Waking Dream
Projects:
Tales from the Source is a medium-lenght movie engaging a visual dialogue with the varied land of the DRC and its ancestral narratives.
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
The Necessary Evil is an experimental short on Faith & Power
Commissions:
Coming sometime, update always in progress
