The Bad Guys and the Good Guys consists of a series of ten monochromatic silkscreen prints that trace a narrative about the influence of the Cold War in Africa. The title of the work and the printed subtitles on the screen prints were appropriated from the documentary Cold War Stories, produced in 1997 by the CNN’s founder Ted Turner. In one of the chapters of the documentary, prominent political and military figures of the two major world superpowers during the Cold War, United States and the former Soviet Union – and also from countries such as Cuba and South Africa – provide a testimony about their involvement in the long civil war in Angola. The perverse attempt to omit the secret and sinister intrusion of the international community in the Angolan civil war often boils down its causes to a mere tribal conflict.

Premium Connect envisions a study of information and communication technologies (ICT), exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestors communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. Embracing the idea that ICT acts as a mirror of the organic world, capable of healing or poisoning depending on its usage and users, Premium Connect investigates the cybernetics spaces where the organic, technologic and spiritual worlds connect. How can we use biological or esoteric systems to fuel technological process of information, control and governance? Overcoming the organism/spirit/device dichotomies, this work explores spiritual connections as communication networks and the possibilities of decolonial technologies.

Contrary to the Eurocentric-biased thinking, our information super highway might find its roots in African spirituality. Significant research attributes the

birth of computing sciences to African divination systems such as the Ifa system of the Yoruba people of East Africa, which appears to be the origin of binary mathematics, today the functioning principle of computing sciences. Once again the origin of knowledge has been erased in favor of Western achievements.

We have much to recover in terms of connectivity and its potentialities. As science recently discovered the role of underground fungi networks used by plants to communicate and transfer information, ancient tradition have long known how to communicate with nature and download its knowledge. Meanwhile our cherished technologies are the results of institutional violence and until now reproduce them continually.

This study of dynamic networks from artificial, spiritual and biologic environments digs into the politics of possibilities, where a mystico-techno- consciousness could nurture a mind- body-spirit-technology symbiosis.

The Weight presents a weight scale with several versions of the Qur'an, in French, Arabic, and English weighing down the scale. These represent all the languages which fatmi has studied or read verses from the Qur'an in, but it’s also about the fragmentation and fleetingness of language. For the artist, after so many years in Europe, speaking Arabic, his mother tongue, now feels awkward, not intuitive but it remains a core part of his identity. It is as if he is suspended between different worlds.

Ifa-Organ associates Ifa; a binary divination system practiced principally in Nigeria, Benin, and their diasporas; and the barrel organ originating in eastern and central Europe. An Ifa priest in Benin performed a remote consultation at the artist’s request. The resulting divination produced a series of signs consisting of binary codes that were then transposed through perforations onto a card made for a barrel organ. When played, the card produces a repetitive music which broadcasts the oracle into public space. The perforated card is at once a sonic and visual object. When it is not played, the card is displayed in the exhibition space inviting the viewer to decipher the divination codes.

'The Dictionary' (2019) is a work in which five channels project definitions of five words into a darkened room. The words - 'denial', 'guilty', 'shame', 'recognition' and 'reparation' - are revealed and intensely described as their synonyms and antonyms. The words are projected in the walls of the room, creating a chronology of consciousness, until they disappear again leaving the audience in an enveloping sound installation of evening- song and crickets and the night sky