The MUA, the single African currency
by Alex Ayivi
- Printed in France
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Technique: Colored pencil on paper and screen printing.
Exhibition available in several formats.
The MUA is a monetary fiction, a utopian currency that aims to replace the CFA franc, the colonial currency still present in the former French colonies.
In a previous project titled "KOSSI SOSSOU," named after an imaginary journalist, Alex Ayivi questioned Togo's political future in light of the corruption of its elites. With MUA, Alex Ayivi appropriates history and proposes a future.
From a list of African politicians, Alex Ayivi has sketched out a paper pantheon, between a political fresco and an accumulation of these anecdotes
popular that are the basis of myths. Drawing on images gleaned from his research, he composes drawings that evoke in sound strokes some essential figures of African history, from the beginnings of independence in the 1960s to today.
Alex Ayivi then takes these characters into a series of denominations with a single face value - ironically set at 99 MUA...
Through their political action in their respective states, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, these men and women have all worked for the continent: by creating the MUA, by expressing his desire that it one day become a pan-African reality, Alex Ayivi says that it is perhaps time to grant these great figures the place they deserve, to give Africa back its history, to grant it the power to create and celebrate its own myths.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
