Kenya's capital, Nairobi, known as 'the green city in the sun', contrasts starkly between its lush areas and impoverished zones. An art collective named Kairos Futura aims to transform Nairobi's dystopian elements into a vision of utopia through their exhibition 'Hakuna Utopia', featuring works by seven artists focused on apocalypse and resilience.
Kenya’s capital, Nairobi , has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from.
But an art collective - Kairos Futura – has been trying to take what might seem like some of the city’s more dystopian elements and create a vision of a utopia, or at least how that might be achieved. He has overcome great odds to become an artist and wants to use his work to address the way that people in Mathare live – often lacking jobs, housing and education.“People are really angry,” he says, but through art, he feels he can “channel” his community’s anger into something positive as “art unites”.He called it the “jungle room” and hoped to get people to connect with nature from within Mathare itself, in an attempt to bridge the ecological divide.
Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.
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