International audienceThe strength of Kinshasa-based artist Méga Mingiedi's map-like drawings and collages lies in two characteristics of his work, both of which constitute a radical departure from mainstream approaches to cartography and to cities more broadly. First, its staunch refusal to consider urban space from a single perspective results in cityscapes that look linear, yet on closer inspection turn out to be equally (i)llegible from left to right and top to bottom. And second, a fundamental ambivalence - a push-pull of simultaneous desire and recoil - that puts in intimate proximity two entities that modernist discourse on the city insists are wholly incompatible : the " jumble " of spaces born of " informal " economies and the " or...