Vitshois’ portrait heads are composed of many faces, hands, and indeterminate body parts excised from glossy style magazines that he collects around the world; this globalized commercial printed matter has been reconfigured into exquisite composite beings of all shades of skin, hair, and eye color, into likenesses of perfect synthesized beings of multiple races, genders, and appearances - perfect cyborgs, that are indeed ideal self images of our times.
Abstract backgrounds of the paintings - sometimes flatly dark, other times blank and stained with painterly elements -emphasize the tension between the generic and the singular, print and paint, figure and background. Vitshois’ dis-engendered figures exemplify a self-image comprised of de personalized, objectified bodies of fashion plates - synthetic, mediated selves, as it were; on the other hand, the use of this ready made imagery as material redeems them, as fashion plates are recycled into paintings, installations, and performances. Vitshois' body of work comprises fractured identities and multiple geographies, contradictory locations and heterochronic calendars - yet this multiplicity is amalgamated into a significant formal entity that can travel in style across borders and without a passport.
Sandra Skurvida
Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo (b.1981, Democratic Republic of the Congo )
Glamorous And Fairy , 2014
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2014Kader Attia
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2012Armand Boua
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2014Armand Boua
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2014Kudzanai Chiurai
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2011David Goldblatt
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2009Isabelle Grobler
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2015Isabelle Grobler
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2015Isabelle Grobler
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2015Daniel Halter
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2013Mario Macilau
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2016Turiya Magadlela
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2012Turiya Magadlela
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2012Turiya Magadlela
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2012Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
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2010Aime Mpane
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2011Terrence Musekiwa
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2016Terrence Musekiwa
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2016Terrence Musekiwa
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2015Terrence Musekiwa
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2015Terrence Musekiwa
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2015Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo
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2013Duhirwe Rushemeza
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2013Duhirwe Rushemeza
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2013Duhirwe Rushemeza
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2013Duhirwe Rushemeza
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2011Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
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2011Shahriar Ahmadi
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2011Shahriar Ahmadi
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2014Armand Boua
—Untitled
2014Kudzanai Chiurai
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2011Jigger Cruz
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2015Caetano De Almeida
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2010Zhang Ding
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2014Heri Dono
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2013Heri Dono
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2008Matías Duville
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2011Oren Eliav
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2011Oren Eliav
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2011Oren Eliav
—Deposition
2012Oren Eliav
—Transfiguration
2014Oren Eliav
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2014Oren Eliav
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2014Semyon Faibisovich
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1993Stelios Faitakis
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2011Stelios Faitakis
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2011Chitra Ganesh
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2011Li Gang
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2013Li Gang
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2014Weigang Gao
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2008-2012Khaled Hafez
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2009Zhang Huan
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2006Carlos Huffmann
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2011Wang Jianwei
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2013Li Jikai
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2010Winner Jumalon
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2016Winner Jumalon
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2016Jitish Kallat
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2010Jitish Kallat
—Untitled (Stations of Pause)
2011Hyung Koo Kang
—Self Portrait
2010Sea-Hyun Lee
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2008Tianbing Li
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2010Guohe Liao
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2011Mateo López
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2014Julius Macwan
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2011I Nyoman Masriadi
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2014Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
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2011Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo
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2013Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
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2011Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
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2011Jagannath Panda
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2011Ruben Pang
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2014Ruben Pang
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2014Ruben Pang
—Light and Divine Winds
2016Ruben Pang
—Graduation Night (Triptych)
2015Rodolpho Parigi
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2011José Patrício
—Collection 2
2005Iranna Pooja
—The Core
2012J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra
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2011J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra
—Vampire
2013Gatot Pujiarto
—Dirty Mind / Otak Porno
2008Thiago Rocha Pitta
—Tres Nuvens De Lama (three mud clouds)
2011Reena Saini Kallat
—Falling Fables-2
2010Yehudit Sasportas
—Untitled
2003Yehudit Sasportas
—Engadina
2005Yehudit Sasportas
—Fan, Earth up, Sky Down
2004Maria Serebriakova
—Rowan Berry
2007Ruijun Shen
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2008Ruijun Shen
—Statue#1
2008Eliezer Sonnenschein
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2010Yoon Suk One
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2016Nguyen Thai Tuan
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2008Nguyen Thai Tuan
—Black Painting No. 58
2008Nguyen Thai Tuan
—Black Painting No. 109
2014Thukral & Tagra
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2011Thukral & Tagra
—Science, Mystery and Magic II (superman)
2011Delson Uchoa
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2010Bita Vakili
—Untitled (from the September Collection)
2012Ronald Ventura
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2014Entang Wiharso
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2012Liu Xiaodong
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2012Zhu Yu
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2012Song Yuanyuan
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2014Song Yuanyuan
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2014Song Yuanyuan
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2013Zhao Zhao
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2010Zhao Zhao
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2010Zhao Zhao
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2010Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company)
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2014Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company)
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