NGO Beninese Solidarity with Endangered Westerners (2020)

Hazoumès NGO Beninese Solidarity with Endangered Westerners reflects on issues of immigration economic disparity and perceptions of wealth Taking a critical eye toward the vast numbers of local and international nongovernmental organizations NGOs operating in his country of Benin the artist created his own NGO to aid poor Westerners thereby reversing conventional assumptions concerning poverty and the distribution of capital from socalled developed nations In an attempt to expose the often hidden realities of the income inequality that exists in global Northern countries he asked Beninese celebrities to solicit donations from Africans who commonly associate Westerners with affluence For Hazoumè the driving concept of the project is to uncover such illusions To all appearances its a matter of reversing the help from south to north But in realityit is about making the Africans cogitate differently