Mucyo is a contemporary Rwandan/French visual artist who graduated from the University of Paris 8 in Fine Arts.
He has developed and continued to explore his own unique style based on “the bleaching process” on textiles. Mucyo first experimented with the “bleach” technique in 2004 during his art studies at the University of Vincennes, Paris 8.
During this same period, he discovered the world of street art in a more intimate way through influential graffiti artists of the Parisian scene.
From then on, he made his pictorial experiments inspired by urban art and African culture. In an incisive and striking graphic style, he draws faces, moments of life, personalities on dark fabrics, burned by bleach, accentuating the “Vintage” effect

“I have always had strong emotions in front of these old degraded photos, degraded by time: it is a very strong source of inspiration. My work is characterized by a pictorial act in two stages. The subject of the canvas, the background of the canvas itself. First, I draw the subject on the canvas with bleach … In a second stage, I work the background. I lose control of the painting at this moment … the traces of bleach transform the canvas itself by drops and splashes of bleach to magnify the subject itself. » (It is only recently that he has started adding Indian ink and paint to add more depth and emotion)

Creating his own unique, non-repeatable universe: I can influence the direction, the movement of the burn… but never predefine it. Unlike painting or adding external elements to create an emotion, I burn the fabric, I remove the color, the material to create the emotion.