Jean Katambayi Mukendi is a visual artist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His practice lies at the intersection of technology, mechanics, geometrics and electricity. He fuses his training as an electrician with the influences from his daily life within his works. Driven by complex electrical mechanisms, his installations seek to find solutions for issues within Congolese society through technological investigations. In addition to group exhibitions, he has held solo exhibitions at Intemporal, Antwerp (2017) and Enough Room for Space, Brussels (2016).
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For Digital Earth 2018 - 2019 fellowship Katambayi Mukendi has been examining ongoing research into electromagnetic waves and the way in which they tend to dominate current forms of communication through the construction of a wire Tesla car using recycled materials. Ultimately, his research is focused on the simulation of an accident with the Tesla car to conceptually intervene with theories around the accident that will take on written, visual, and digital forms; drawing attention to the economic inequalities within Congolese social classes, which he believes will grow even more through the environmental impact of the so-called “green revolution” and capitalist mining industry, in the Congo.
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