Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

130 Strauss & co contemporary art auction Patrick Bongoy, 2016, [Online] http://ebonycurated.com/the-revenants-ii/ [11 January 2018]. 45 Patrick Bongoy CONGOLESE b1980 Revenants II: Reluctant Travellers Transforming into Outsiders Carrying as Much as We Bear 2017 recycled rubber on fibreglass cast height: 182cm R70 000 – 90 000 EXHIBITED Ebony Curated, Cape Town, Where Are We? Where Are We Going? 26 April to 26 May 2017. “This work speaks to the movement of displaced peoples, forced into ongoing migration and evicted from their space of belonging by war, corruption and the erosion of various resources. [...] These reluctant travellers will suffer trauma, both visible and invisible losses as they are transformed into outsiders and aliens. [...] And if they were to return, what will they be…even if that were possible? Damaged, polluted and remade – this journey and its hostile environments transforms a person, their whole being [...]”