Ubuntu

Ubuntu is one of those precious words capable of embracing more meanings than we can grasp. As a word, it comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages ​​and obeys a philosophy in which sharing allows us to empathetically connect humanity, where individuality is based on the community. Boa Mistura, after a residency in South Africa, takes up this concept to create a work that is fragmented into 36 independently framed 30 x 30 centimeter quadrants and in which the sum of these individualities makes up Ubuntu, since the original piece is the sum of the letters of the word. When someone acquires one of these fragments for their collection, Boa Mistura undertakes to paint it in a place in the world, so that the collector, with their private action, becomes a patron of a project in a public space that, in principle, they do not know. As in the Ubuntu philosophy, each action has a consequence, with the particularity that the project weaves a sort of spider web between the artists, the places and the collectors among themselves, devising a shared work since each collector can only buy one of the 36 quadrants.