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Item: Divina

Jean Katambayi Mukendi

2025

Painting, 300 x 639 cm.
Materials: acrylic on canvas

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Wouters Gallery.

The large–scale painting Divina resembles a printed circuit board, a structure fundamental to nearly all electronic devices. Its title is an anagram of Nvidia, a leading US-based technology company for AI computing hardware. Combining technical schematics with spiritual symbolism—most notably the hand at its center, evoking the divine—the painting draws attention to the extraction of raw materials such as copper and cobalt in the DRC, essential to global electronics production.

(source: Instagram KW Institute for Contemporary Art @kwinstitutefcontemporaryart)

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