Wuh.ey - “Mzunguko wa Mwanga”

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 – “Mzunguko wa Mwanga”

A body disappears in the vortex – only movement remains. A hat as large as a universe rotates through the gray courtyard of an apartment building. "Mzunguko wa Mwanga" – the Circle of Light – is a dance between anonymity and revelation, between tradition and urbanity.

The work demonstrates what makes Wuh.ey's art so radical: the fusion of the spiritual with the everyday. The setting, seemingly banal—a social housing block with laundry hanging on the wall, facades that tell stories of life and survival—unfolds. Yet at its core, a ritual as old as the earth itself unfolds.

The dancer is barely visible; his body disappears into the costume, the movement, the dust. What becomes visible is pure energy. The weave of raffia and beads is reminiscent of Yoruba masks or Dogon dances, but here the ritual takes place in concrete, not in the bush. It's a new form of healing—urban, improvisational, electric.

"Mzunguko wa Mwanga" draws the gaze into another reality, where the digital itself becomes the bearer of the sacred. This work is not photographed, but imagined—a vision born from the depths of artificial intelligence, where data becomes dreams.

Here, Wuh.ey summons the ghosts of modernity—those who dwell between the floors and the wires. The circle continues to turn: past and future, body and architecture, ritual and resistance. Everything becomes one in rhythm.