About

Maurice Mbikayi was born in 1974 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. He obtained a BA in Graphic Design in Kinshasa and completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town in 2015.
Mbikayi questions the proliferation of technological trade in our geopolitical system. The dependence of technology on mining, for example, has left African countries and their populations vulnerable to resource exploitation and the abuse of low-wage labour. Mbikayi collects remnants of rapidly developing technology and incorporates them into his work. This results in sculptures, works on paper, …