Yé, 2025
Yannos Majestikos
performance
The word "Yé," meaning "him" or "the other" in Lingala, becomes the starting point for a performance that questions the invisible aspects of our daily relationships: what we perceive, what we project, what we hide in the way we look at others and in the way others look at us.
Dressed in white, my head enveloped in a cube of mirrors, I wander through the public space. This cube captures and reflects the faces of passersby, which replace my own. This simple yet powerful gesture creates an ephemeral fusion between me and the other, materializing this invisible and often unconscious part of the identities intertwined in urban life.
Accompanied by a multilingual soundscape composed of whispered voices collected from different communities, the performance gives substance to the invisible: thoughts, doubts, and silent projections that permeate human interactions in the city. This poetic intervention seeks to disrupt the usual flow of everyday life, to create a space for encounter and reflection, to reveal what usually remains veiled—the complexity, richness, and sometimes fragility of human relationships in public spaces.
Like Adrian Piper's Catalysis or JR's projects, Yé delicately and engagingly questions the place of the other, the invisible forms of presence, and the untold stories that traverse our cities.
Gallery
About the Artist
Born in 1988 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yannos Majestikos is a visual artist and performer. A graduate in interior architecture from the Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa, he creates drawings and sculptures, founds the Sakana Na Art collective, signs committed performances in the public space from 2012 (Super Ekolo), participates in exhibitions and films. Winner 2018 of the French Institute's Visa pour la création (street arts), in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, he chose to settle in France. He takes part in Chronique Kinshasa at Miam in Sète with his Sapekologie Téléportation project, and performs in Paris and Europe.
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