Maria Muehombo aka M I M I

Maria Muehombo, known under the alias M I M I is a Angolan-Zambian and Brussels-based transdisciplinary artist & Dj.
Living in Belgium since 1998, she explores her Afro-European cultural heritage through different media. Looking towards forward thinking movements while exploring roots, she approaches her arts and music with her own take.
Her work is driven by an ongoing conversation with nature, drawing inspiration from the boundaries between the natural world and the human made, with a specific focus on the impact of the anthropocene. 

In her sonic & visual practice, this translates into a reconnection with raw organic matter. She creates encapsulated ecosystems with them, or uses them as material to paint abstract natural landscapes on raw canvas whilst conducting research on biomimetics and post-anthropocene thinking. She strongly believes that as a species, our well-being is deeply connected to nature, and to achieve sustainable evolution, we must reconnect with it.

 

Pictures: Maria Muehombo, Horst Arts & Music Festival - by Eline Willaert