Mayebo offers an artistic and critical perspective on the global use of plastic. In recycling plastic waste and turning it into an organism inspiring growth and nature's beauty, Nkembo aims to raise awareness on this pressing issue.
Setting this installation on a water surface insufflates it with more meaning and implication. Indeed, plastic has been considerably responsible for the pollution of oceans. In setting Mayebo in a water element, he draws a direct visual connection between the overuse of plastic and its damaging effect for oceans or any natural body of water. His installation, through such intervention, becomes a real, public and visual statement against global warming and for the protection of the environment.
In this period when humanity has suffered a blow, and when all the signals predict the post-pandemic drowning, this installation happens to be a message of hope and comfort.
