Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe
Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is co-founder of the group Vision Total (vi.to) and works in collaboration with Kin Art Studio (KAS). He has participated in several group exhibitions and residency artist in his country and abroad. Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe: the imaginary between mapping and scarification of the body, he combines painting, drawing, sculpture and installation in his practice as an artist. However, his work explores all ideas of migration and identity, borders and space, signs and symbols. His art practice focuses on issues related to urban space, exploring parallels between urban mapping and body scarification. The medium of choice is the “door”, which he attributes to being synonymous with openness, encounter and discovery in an increasingly universal society.
His work functions as a “cartographic essay” in which he attempts to construct a new and global world while merging and juxtaposing maps of different cities and the scarification of the body. It is a way for him to question identity, the city and its cartography, to erase borders between peoples and to give birth to a unique territory in the imaginary space of his work.
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