"THE TITLE OF THE KW SHOW is "RATIO." The term comes from economics, this idea of balance. But I'm applying it to the conflict here in the DRC, which is based around our strategic rare minerals. I'm talking about customs, electronics, space, minerals. In my country, we only ever talk about making phones, about buying a new phone. I advise young people who are looking at the front of their phone-at the screen-to keep the back of their phone in mind;"
"I'm putting forth my ideas as an artist to reveal, to create, to show how I can bring my mind, my body, my spirit online. That is my contribution. This is where balance and ratios come in again, bringing rationality into the world. My exhibition here talks about the balance of economies in the world, about the conflict internationally and my position as an African person inside this conflict."
The exhibition titled RATIO applies the economic concept of balance to the conflict in the DRC centered on strategic rare minerals used in customs, electronics, and space industries. A phone-back metaphor highlights the many contributors and hidden labor and ideas behind technological objects and invites individual creative contribution. The works combine about fifty A1 drawings with new pieces, shifting away from earlier lightbulb motifs except for one drawing using Benjamin Franklin's signature as a filament to reference electricity and the Enlightenment's role in current geopolitical imbalances. The project frames balance, ratios, and rationality within global economic and positional dynamics.
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