Bongoy’s artworks depict the realities of youth, dreams, environment, wars and climate change
One of the 2024 finalists in the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Bongoy uses rubber for his artworks, saying it's connected to the environment, and Congo, his birth place
17 March 2024 - 00:00
The tilting Superman logo on a boyish figure cut out of rubber and the flipped logo on another, the pair joined by barely touching hands on a hessian backdrop, are flanked by a shadowy figure made of recycled rubber inner tube pierced by fragments on a rubber backdrop in Patrick Bongoy’s artwork Shadow Self II. ..
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