Mayebo
Is an installation art project evoking a plantation garden made out of recycled waste plastic packaging and labels of our daily consumption products. The plant that grows and composes this garden is a kind of flower of multiple colors inspired by the shape of a mold fungus from which the term 'MAYEBO' originates. In fact, Mayebo is nothing but the translation of 'fungus' into Lingala, my mother language.
This living organism that grows in a wild environment inspires me with hope. It comforts us with the idea that life can be born out of madness and confusion. Planted in an organic soil or on clay, the fungus particles that I create are, for this occasion, put in perspective or in contrast with the daily news or the climate of fear which we are living in. Concerned by the chaotic state of our global society that is consumed by all kinds of evil and pollution, I equally believe in mankinds resilience and transformation.
Having recycled these plastic packages waste in Kinshasa, Blanca, Paris, Milton Keynes, Madrid New York, Virginia and Ottawa, and turning them into this blossoming installation, I aim to continue this process, forming an immense garden, invading walls, ceilings, hoping to fill a whole room and that of any surface.
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