More than 160 works – statuettes, masks, everyday objects – from the regions of Kwongo, Kwilu, Mai-Ndombe and Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are presented in Paris.
Visible until April 10 at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris, the exhibition The Shadow Part reveals 163 works from the south-west of the Congo, dating mostly from the years 1875 to 1950.
This exhibition reveals “the artistic production of a rich but still little-known region where dozens of people live together. A diversity that can be found in the field of plastic arts, as evidenced by the extraordinary variety of forms of statuary, masks and other everyday objects from this region.“, says the commissioner and curator of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren in Belgium.