digital print on found synthetic hessian bag
Artwork date: 2008
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered P/P in ink along the bottom
Exhibited: Blank Projects, Cape Town, 'Expired Trading Products', 2008.
Literature: Kia Henda, K. (2016). 'Kiluanji Kia Henda: Travelling to the Sun Through the Night'. Göttingen: Steidl, illustrated in colour on pp.124-127.
Location: Johannesburg
digital print on found synthetic hessian bag
Artwork date: 2008
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered P/P in ink along the bottom
Exhibited: Blank Projects, Cape Town, 'Expired Trading Products', 2008.
Literature: Kia Henda, K. (2016). 'Kiluanji Kia Henda: Travelling to the Sun Through the Night'. Göttingen: Steidl, illustrated in colour on pp.124-127.
Location: Johannesburg
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sheet size: 120 x 130 cm; framed size: 134 x 145 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
Notes:
Kiluanji Kia Henda is an autodidact for whom a profound springboard into photography was growing up in a household of photography enthusiasts. His conceptual edge was sharpened by immersing himself into music, avant-garde theatre, and collaborating with a collective of emerging artists in Luanda’s art scene. In his practice, he explores photography, video, performance, installation, and object-sculpture to materialise fictitious narratives – dislocating the facts to different temporalities and contexts.
Select solo exhibitions include Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro (2020); The Isle of Venus, Museum of Leuven (2020); A City Called Mirage, International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (2017); In the Days of a Dark Safari, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, and Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2017); and Self-Portrait As A White Man, Galleria Fonti, Naples (2010).
Kia Henda has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, including Barbican Art Centre, London (2020); Migros Museum, Zurich (2020); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2019); Tate Modern, London (2019); MAAT, Lisbon (2018); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2016); the National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (2015); and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2015). His work was shown at the Gwangju Biennale (2018), Bergen Assembly (2013); São Paulo Biennale (2010); Venice Biennale (2007); and the Luanda Triennale (2007).
In 2017, he received the Frieze Artist Award. He was awarded Angola’s National Culture and Arts Award in 2012. His work is held in private and institutional collections, including Tate Modern (London); the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw); Centre George Pompidou (Paris); FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de- France (Dunkerque); and Pérez Art Museum (Miami).
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