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In his long-term project Primordial Earth, Léonard Pongo explores the diversity of landscapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo and offers us a loose, allegorical narrative of creation, apocalypse, and everything in between. By presenting the landscape as a living entity, a character of magical beauty, with a will of its own and indomitable power, the earth becomes for Pongo the source of a consciousness from which tradition, philosophy and conceptions of the universe spring. Pongo lets nature speak, without trying to translate it. From the traditions and cosmologies of the Kasai region, he …