image: "The Treatise" | 2012 | photo-lithography etching | Nathalie Mba Bikoro
The Dictator | Fear Nano Politics
The visa stamps and banknotes are inked with a symbol, generated by 1930’s Disney animations, a handshake between Mickey and his companion Friday. Legitimising a friendship/accord based on false independence, costly freedoms, environmental destruction, ignorance and for the suffering and eradications of peoples that fall outside the margins. Transformed into an emblem belonging to children animation, it creates an inherent symbol partaking in the creation of an imagined nationalism or reality constantly performed in our quotidian discourses and to our rectifications to Marxism’s incapacity to deal with nationalism. There is potential for peace as much as there is potential for treason. The manipulation and alienation of these symbols of authority, by copying them or through an exchange of visual emblems, provocatively questions the monopoly of power, control and the security mentality of the state and should be read as a resistance against repression.
image: "The Treatise | Mickey Man' Friday" | 2012 | photo-lithography etching | Nathalie Mba Bikoro
image: "The Treatise | Mickey Man' Friday" | 2012 | photo-lithography etching | Nathalie Mba Bikoro
"Mickey Man's Friday" | 2011 | 16,9 x 11,3 cm | Black ink on ivory paper
Film
"King of the World" | 2012 | photo-lithography etching | Nathalie Mba Bikoro
Bananas | From The Skies | screenprint on paper | 2013
The Brick Moon | screenprint on canvas | 2013