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156 - Précy NUMBI (1992, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo) …
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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Précy NUMBI (1992, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo) Sapiens robot Assembly of recycled materials - car bodywork, electronic components, pipes, fan, rim, springs and wiring 30 x 20 cm Signed "P. Numbi 025". *** Mixed media assemblage (automobile bodywork, electronic components, pipes, fan, wheel rim, springs and wiring), signed, 11¾ × 7⅞ in. A head-mask constructed from assembled industrial and electronic scrap, this sculpture belongs to the Robot sapiens series in which Précy Numbi composes hybrid figures that are half-human, half-machine. The red lacquered bodywork frames a face structured around car headlights as eyes and a gaping washing machine window as a mouth - open, as the artist demands of his masks, in response to the African objects frozen in Western shop windows. Each component bears the memory of how it was used and discarded, pointing to the economic circuits that link Congolese mining to Western technological consumption. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, where he graduated in 2014 with a degree in graphic arts and interior architecture, Précy Numbi has been committed to performance art as a central tool in his practice ever since he finished his studies. Based between Brussels and Kinshasa since 2019, he is developing a body of work at the crossroads of monumental sculpture, installation and urban performance, in which electronic waste, rusty metals and industrial scraps become a plastic and political language. Winner of the Prix Solidarité Laïque at the Ouagadougou International Sculpture Biennial in 2019, he has taken part in numerous exhibitions and residencies in the DRC, France, Belgium and Burkina Faso.
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About the sale Arab, African & Indian Modernities
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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