Step Into FRAGMNTS: An Immersive Audio-Visual Journey from Mutua Matheka

Join acclaimed Kenyan photographer, Mutua Matheka, as he presents FRAGMNTS, an awe-inspiring immersive installation that weaves over a decade of his work. Capturing the rooftops of Nairobi since 2010, this exhibition invites you to experience the city’s heart—both its vibrant hope and its beautiful chaos—through a powerful blend of film, photography, and immersive audio-visuals.

In Mutua’s words:

The Beginning

“The beginning reveals the context, as always; as with any great story, whether you’re telling it with words, with song, or as I choose to do it, with pictures. This story begins in high school, when my mother made sure I knew how to get to town and back without getting lost: by telling me to always keep sight of KICC. Because that way, I’d never get lost.

I got lost, though. A couple of times, in many different ways, and some of those unintentional journeys led to deeper ones within myself. In fact, one of them led to me standing on top of my original beacon, KICC, so taken by the view that I couldn’t do anything other than look.”

The Inspiration

“When I got home, it felt like many photographers had felt the same, because there were simply no pictures of the incredible skyscape I’d just seen. Pictures of sprawling Kibera? Plenty. Animals in the park? Chock full. It was this journey, of looking up and going higher, that had me taking pictures of aerial perspectives all over my city, the kind that wouldn’t come up on the first page of a Google search, back then.

As a trained architect, the beauty of structure, cities, and buildings, and what they tell us about people, was too strong an allure to resist.”

The Show

“I find that cities, just like people, have their own different personalities, which show up differently to different people, depending on how you interact with them. Tiny fragments make up the bigger story of Nairobi. Some overlap. Some don’t ever cross each other. I take pictures of them all.

This show is an invitation to step into my Nairobi; what I see when I’m up there, and how it plays out in my mind’s greatest imaginations of grandeur. Into my own little play with what is, and what that can inspire. I want to welcome you to see Nairobi’s fragments, pieces, puzzles, that you maybe haven’t seen before. In a way you haven’t seen before. Nairobi is a city that can be brutal and kind, ethereal and tragic. The people can wow you with magnanimity and in the same breath, shock you with spite. All of the chaos, all of it is us. Step into my version of the chaos.”

When: 26th October – 10th November Shows: 2 shows daily – 12 noon and 4pm Costs: Opening Show 25th Oct – Ksh 3,000 Other shows: Ksh 1,000 Location: The Silo at The Junction Mall

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