RATIO, Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s commission for IN SITU, spans newly produced drawings and large-scale sculptures. The exhibition addresses global structural inequities in resource extraction and power distribution, questioning the dualities that shape our world, between the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction.

Mukendi’s sculptures engage with contemporary technological developments, ranging from the field of agriculture to military and robotics. His composite structures merge and transform machine functions, imaginatively exploring their ecological potential through recycling and repurposing.

Mukendi’s sculptural works respond to contemporary technological developments, from agriculture to robotics and military systems. Built as composite structures, they merge and reconfigure machine functions, testing what these technologies might become when approached through recycling and repurposing, and when imagined for their ecological potential.

The artist’s drawings extend these inquiries, offering observations and speculative reflections on human experience in relation to ecology, economy, and language, among others.

RATIO is Mukendi’s first solo museum presentation and is part of M HKA’s IN SITU programme, dedicated to newly commissioned work.

https://www.muhka.be/en/exhibitions/jean-katambayi-mukendi-ratio/

Artists: Jean Katambayi Mukendi