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New York 2018

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Ngayimoko, Ambroise

Born 1949 in Angola
Lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ambroise Ngayimoko, Mannequins exposant le nouveau mode de pantalon dénommé le pattes d’éléphants, 1974, Gelatin Silver Print, 40 x 50 cm, 15 x 19 in, Ed of 8 + 2 AP. Photography: 3Z/ 3C. Courtesy MAGNIN-A  

In 1961, Ngayimoko moved to Kinshasa where he worked as a mechanic and a technician for an open-air cinema, before he became an assistant to his uncle in 1968, who ran two photo studios. He opened the Studio 3Z in 1971 (Kitambo), a name chosen to symbolise the three Zaïres: the country, the currency and the river. He gained recognition in the 1970s due to an unprecedented technique in which he developed two portraits on the same sheet, using the same negative twice. This cult of cloning is reminiscent of the traditional rites performed for a missing twin. In the full swing of ‘Zaïrisation’, the shortage of 6×6 black & white film and the eventual arrival of color film, had an effect on Ngaimoko’s clientele. In 1997, he renamed his studio 3C (for the three Congos). Recent exhibitions include Histoires Congolaises, Robert-Desnos Library, Montreuil (2017) and Beauté Congo, 1926-2015, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2015).

Selected Artists

De Medeiros, Emo

Kamel, Ahmed

Adewale, Alimi

Meyer, Kyle

Cissé, Soly

Ben Bella, Mahjoub

Koraïchi, Rachid

Alatise, Peju

Artists 2018

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Adams, Derrick
    • Adewale, Alimi
    • Alatise, Peju
    • Andrialavidrazana, Malala
    • Appah, Gideon
    • Asidere, Duke
  • B

    • Baya
    • Ben Bella, Mahjoub
    • Bey, Omar
    • Binebine, Mahi
    • Boetti, Alghiero
    • Botes, Conrad
    • Boughriet, Halida
    • Boutté, Nathalie
    • Bruly Bouabré, Fréderic
  • C

    • Choumali, Joana
    • Cissé, Soly
  • D

    • De Medeiros, Emo
    • Diop, Omar Victor
    • Douglas Camp CBE, Sokari
  • E

    • Ekpuk, Victor
    • El-Salahi, Ibrahim
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • F

    • Fagbohoun, Dimitri
  • H

    • Hugo, Pieter
    • Hwami, Kudzanai-Violet
  • I

    • Idahor, Taiye
  • K

    • Kamel, Ahmed
    • Kamudzengerere, Admire
    • Kannemeyer, Anton
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Khanyile, Phumzile
    • Khelil, Farah
    • Koraïchi, Rachid
  • L

    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Maludi, Houston
    • Marasela, Senzeni
    • Mejri, Thameur
    • Meyer, Kyle
    • Mika, JP
    • Monosov, Rachel
    • Msezane, Sethembile
    • Musekiwa, Terrence
  • N

    • Ngayimoko, Ambroise
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Ogunji, Wura-Natasha
    • Okpa-Iroha, Uche
    • Olagunju, Niyi
    • Olatunji, Babajide
    • Osodi, George
    • Oukpedjo, Sadikou
  • S

    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Saouabi, Nabil
    • Seydou, Kassou
    • Shonibare MBE, Yinka
    • Sibiya, Bambo
    • Sidibé, Malick
    • Sime, Elias
    • Sory, Sanlé
  • T

    • Takadiwa, Moffat
    • Triki, Gouider
  • W

    • Wahaab, Uthman
    • Wemega-Kwawu, Rikki

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