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"Goblet Man". Artist : Jules Disoluka Sarkozi / Matongue district in Kinshasa. Democratic Republic of Congo. On 26/10/2021 This mask is made of plastic cups. Although Africa is officially the world leader in the banning of plastic, the reality is quite different. Plastic waste pollution is recognised as one of the world's most dangerous pollutants. African cities are becoming mired in plastic waste. The bags are blown everywhere and end up on trees and roads, rivers and lakes, in sewers and on beaches. The plastic bag engulfs people in poor countries, covering them, devouring them with its micro-particles. The proliferation of waste pushes people to burn it. The incineration of plastics gives off toxic gases that threaten the environment and people. For the first time, I made a series in which I had the characters pose. All these photographs were made with the written agreement of the collective and each artist. The street is their common history and their artistic scene, and it seemed legitimate to me to place them in the reality of the ghettos of Kinshasa. I chose to make the artists' portraits in the streets of Kinshasa, so that the environment and the power of the mask would respond to each other and echo this almost apocalyptic reality. The characters in the photographs were not chosen or directed, I chose the environment and asked the people present for their agreement. I then took the time to obtain a spontaneous result.

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