KEEPING GHANA ECO-FRIENDLY

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The world's largest electronic device graveyard "Ghana's Agbogbloshie" In June 2017, MAGO, who became a street painter after his company went bankrupt in 2009, visited Agbogbloshie, a slum in Ghana known as the world's electronic graveyard. There, MAGO meets people who live on a daily wage of just 500 yen a day, desperately burning electronic devices thrown away by developed countries. What he witnessed were people who are said to have died in their 30s after inhaling large amounts of gas and contracting cancer. "Is it so important that we accumulate wealth at their expense? I want to convey this truth to developed countries through the power of art." True love found in the slums of Ghana After returning to Japan, he created works using unnecessary waste even in the slums, and with the earnings from the sales, he made his second visit in November 2017 and delivered 250 gas masks for the first time to prolong their lives from cancer. Thereafter, MAGO vowed to them that he would "make this slum even better with art." This oath brought him miracles. On March 20, 2018, MAGO's artworks were sold for 15 million yen each at the solo exhibition "Art is for saving people: A visit to the slums of Ghana" held in Ginza. “Everything is for them”. This true love has endowed MAGO with a unique and never-ending creativity. Since then, MAGO has continued to transform the waste collected in this slum into his own works, and to return the earnings to the local people.