Screen print on paper. 63.7cm by 44.5cm (each)
This work reflects a society negotiating survival around a collapsing system. The towering baobab tree is a symbol of ecological breakdown, strained and exposed. The fish appear displaced and carried on carts rather than existing in water, suggesting habitat loss and extraction. The figures seem to function independently, more like small survival units. There’s no unified community only a sense of society breaking into many small economic units.
Their varied postures; bending, carrying, transporting, selling are a hint of widening social inequalities. Some labor heavily while others control movement of resources. Overall, the piece reflects organized scarcity where the environmental collapse deepens political fragmentation and makes displacement an ordinary condition of life.
Winfred Mumbi King’oo is a Kenyan visual artist, whose work centers on storytelling as a way of holding memory, healing, and lived experiences. She works with screen prints and paintings where she explores figurative forms, texture and symbolism drawing inspiration from everyday spaces, bodies, and landscapes. Her practice is rooted in observation: how people move, how places remember, and how nature reflects our inner worlds, inviting reflection and questioning