Once more anthropologist Filip De Boek and architect Koen Van Syngel
co-operate after the acclaimed exhibition Kinshasa, the imaginary
city. This time the focus of attention is on the work of Pume Bylex, a
visual artist from Kinshasa.
Bylex, artist name of Francis Pume, creates through drawings, costumes,
furniture and maquettes an idiosyncratic universe.
This Congolese, both researcher and creator of concepts as an artist,
performs a near scientific research on the invisible laws and processes of the
world we live in. As an artist, Bylex is not interested in the banal Kinshasa
reality but zooms in on that what is beyond the horizon of visible things.
First and foremost, The World According to Bylex shows us a movie
Percer les Mystères de l'Invisible (Penetrate in the Mysteries of the
Invisible). Not a linear story, but a kaleidoscope of videos in which Bylex
creates a personal view of the world handling science, technique,
religion...
For this exhibition Bylex also created a maquette of La cité
touristique (The Tourist City). This Utopian city of which Bylex has been
dreaming all his life, embodies his aiming for a better, universal world.