Wuh.ey - “Malkia wa Taka”

From the series: African Fusion
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 60 × 60 cm
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP

Wuh.ey – “Malkia wa Taka”

In the midst of the sea of ​​garbage, she stands like an apparition: majestic, upright, imperturbable. A young woman adorned with feathers, shells, glass beads, and fragments of modern life. Behind her is an old pickup truck, rusty, almost holy in its decay. The ground beneath her is littered with plastic and dirt—a mirror of our times.

"Malkia wa Taka" – the Queen of Waste – is an allegory of surviving beauty. Wuh.ey transforms the ruins of the Anthropocene into a stage for dignity and resistance. The woman looks directly at us: neither victim nor prophet, but a witness to a world that deifies its own rubble.

Her golden-yellow makeup glows like war paint—a protection, a signal. The headdress made of recycled objects becomes the crown of a new era in which spirituality exists not beyond the material, but within its decomposition.

This work is both an accusation and a prayer. It reveals the paradoxical beauty of decay, the power of feminine presence, and the reclaiming of the sacred in the profane. "Malkia wa Taka" reminds us that the body itself belongs to the earth—and that even in pollution, memory, rhythm, and divine energy still reside.

Wuh.ey creates a manifesto here: As the world crumbles, perhaps a new goddess will rise from its garbage.