Waxons-nous entre arts, tissu et musique

11 artists expressing themselves around Wax, between arts, textiles, and music, with Kool Koor (Charles William Hargrove Jr.) — New York / South Bronx Pionnier of New York graffiti. It merges abstract/urban language with textile motifs (Wax, batik, kitenge), envisioning fabric as an archive and a vehicle of information in constant reinvention.\n\nAlexandre Keto — São Paulo, major Brésil Acteur of international street art with 1,000 murals. His work is inspired by hip-hop culture.\n\nMélissa Sira Traoré — France / Cameroon / Mali Elle crafts immersive textile installations (braiding, knotting). She transforms Wax into an embodied language where artisanal gestures become places of memory and transmission.\n\nNelson Louis — Belgium / DRC\nSculptor and scenographer, author of the permanent project “Les Isolés” at the Square Lumumba in Brussels.\n\nMaliza Kiasuwa — DRC / Romania / Brussels\nThrough ritual gestures of deconstruction (cutting, twisting) and reconstruction (weaving, assembly of raffia, paper, fibers), she creates textile sculptures comparable to a “Tour de Babel”, questioning the hybridization of cultures.\n\nEmmanuel Aggrey Tieku — Ghana / France Ingénieur civil and winner of the Prix Ellipse 2025. He collects used second-hand clothing (Oburoni Wawu) to create sculptural textile sediments, opposing the cultural transmission of Wax with the forced transmission of textile waste.\n\nArtgrove (Geoffrey Winston) — Bruxelles Créateur of the "Cardinalphabet" concept, he rotates the letters of the alphabet toward the cardinal points to transform language into a motif. His digital creations use Wax motifs as true visual compasses of identity orientation.\n\nMireille Asia Nyembo — DRC / Bruxelles Chercheuse and textile designer trained at the Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa and praised by TAMAT. She brings ancestral raffia fiber into tension with Wax fabric, creating a living archive of colonial and indigenous memory.\n\nMucyo — France / Rwanda Diplômé de Paris 8 and from the street art scene. He uses the innovative technique of "washing out" (bleaching with bleach) as a political act to denounce skin bleaching and question the reappropriation of bodies.\n\nChekos'Art — Lecce, iconic Italie Figure of international street art and founder of 167/B Street. For this edition, he undertakes an unprecedented challenge: transposing his urban aesthetic (stencil, aerosol) directly onto canvases incorporating Wax fabric.\n\nLéna Benz (Hélène Garbar) — Bruxelles Initiatrice and cornerstone of the WAXONS NOUS concept. Daughter of a founding member of OK Jazz (Congolese rumba), she immortalizes through her works Wax as a vector of orality, elegance, and family filiation.