La Quincaillerie des corps bâclés
Nelson Makengo
Video installation, 6 minutes 23 seconds
La Quincaillerie des corps bâclés is still a work in progress. Fiston Mwanza Mujila & Nelson Makengo set out to paint a striking portrait of a phantasmagorical city. Kinshasa is here no more than a pretext for rethinking, through urban space, Congo’s history, punctuated by cycles of violence. Mwanza Mujila’s riverine lyricism is matched by Nelson Makengo’s visual grammar, characterized by juxtaposition, abruptness, fragment and instantaneity.
Nelson Makengo is a filmmaker whose work oscillates between contemporary art and cinema. His short film Nuit debout has screened at over a hundred festivals worldwide and was nominated by the BFI as one of the fifty best films of 2020. E’ville (2018) won the Sharjah Art Foundation Prize at the Videobrasil Biennale in 2019. In recent years, Nelson Makengo has collaborated as a director with Aljazeera and Meta and is a member of the Sundance Documentary Film Institute and the Doha Film Institute.