In September 2013, reports started coming out of Kinshasa of a cosmonaut walking the streets at odd times and places. The first sightings were in Lingwala, a neighborhood near the city center. Then came the wildly eroded streets of Kindele quarter; Kimbanseke, home, once, to the prophet Simon Kibangu; Ngwaka, the city’s toughest area; and Matonge, where Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
Still and moving images showed the cosmonaut ambling through a forest, pushing a boulder, Sisyphus-like, up a steep embankment, and performing a ritual before the falls. Everywhere, he appears in a silver suit bristling with extensions of various kinds.
Malaquais/Astronauts, 2020
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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