Born in 1990 in Cotonou (Benin), Mawena Yehouessi (aka M/Y) is a collist: art curator, researcher and artist. Founder of the collective Black(s) to the Future and currently a PhD student at Villa Arson + Université Côte d´Azur, she lives and works between Paris and Nice (France). Between futurisms and poetic realities, she develops a collation practice that is imploring (not exploratory), collaborative and prospective. She (Mawena) and her (M/Y) mediums thus oscillate from visual/digital syncretism and cinema to writing poetry, translation, pedagogy, creating concepts, collective meetings, studying, improvised dance, makeup parties and calling them exhibitions… Graduated in literature, philosophy, cultural project management and contemporary dance, the MY's are part of these ghost generations of unclassifiable beings, whose worlds, imaginaries, hustles & jobs are an aggregation of bars, glitches, undercommonings and displacements.