ABOUT
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Recycle digital. Repair memory. Re-embroider the world.
REPIX is a textile manifesto born from the urgency of preserving digital memory. Founded by Congolese artist Serge Basila, REPIX transforms web debris—deleted images, forgotten websites, fragments of vanished forums—into garments that carry invisible stories.
Each creation is a hybrid textile work, blending computer code, traditional patterns, and Congolese art brut. We call this Virtualithics: a method of digital alchemy where oblivion becomes raw material, and each bug becomes an embroidery stitch.
REPIX is inspired by KIZOBAZOBA, a free, chaotic and committed aesthetic, born in the heart of Kinshasa, which reinvents visual languages to dress the present with the ghosts of the cloud.
Each REPIX piece frees up server space, plants a tree, and gives dead data a second skin. It's a fashion rebellion, a couture memory, a poetic and ecological act in a world saturated with pixels.
Serge Basial. Owner of REPIX
Founded in 2018 in Kinshasa by artist-activist Serge Basila, the ESI ESIMBI association was born out of an urgent need: to provide the commune of Limete with a vibrant cultural center capable of promoting art, revealing young talents, and promoting access to culture for all.
From its inception, ESI ESIMBI positioned itself as an independent artistic laboratory, a bridge between emerging artists and national and international scenes. Through its residencies, exhibitions, workshops, fashion shows, and conferences, it became a leading platform for fashion, visual creation, and performance in Kinshasa.
Among its flagship projects, “Made in Congo” marked a turning point: an ambitious event bringing together Congolese stylists, models, hairdressers and makeup artists, affirming the richness of Kinshasa fashion and its rightful place on the international scene.
But as the world shifts into the digital age and digital waste accumulates in oblivion, ESI ESIMBI is undergoing a transformation.
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Committed
REPIX is not limited to fashion items. It offers:
digital upcycling workshops,
the symbolic adoption of lost files,
ethical traceability,
and even eco-friendly packaging containing seeds to plant.
Through REPIX, ESI ESIMBI reinvents textile creation as an act of ecological resistance, a poetic way of repairing the digital wounds of our time.
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The Origin
REPIX was born from the radical imagination of Congolese artist Serge Basila, driven by the idea that a garment is not simply a style, but a story. Part of the ESI-ESIMBI label, we embody the intersection of art brut, ecology, and digital archiving.
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Our Mission
We recycle digital waste—abandoned websites, forgotten images, orphaned screenshots—and transform them into textile works that carry the memory of an ever-changing digital world.
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Our Vision
Our approach is guided by Virtualithics, the invisible science of digital regeneration, and by the unique aesthetic of KIZOBAZOBA, a digital art brut. We don't just make fashion. We rewrite digital history.