An ephemeral land art piece was created in Benin in March 2021, as the tenth stage of the global project "Beyond Walls," and is marked by its context. In the lake city of Ganvié, where populations fleeing slave raids found refuge, the artist highlights the richness of local populations and conveys an optimistic, unifying message that is directed towards a common future.

This artwork is part of Saype's "Beyond Walls" project, which aims to create a human chain that circumnavigates the world. The project depicts intertwined hands, reaching out, clasping, and uniting in a common effort beyond the walls that separate and confine humans in a mental or geographical space.

In this artwork, the symbolic crossing of walls does not abolish the singularity of each of these hands: they all express a history and bear subtle marks of multiple belongings, whether they are social, geographical, or ethnic.

Beyond the walls, each human singularity is granted a right of passage and a right of citizenship. The universality that emerges from it is that of a plural humanity.

Through his approach, the artist transcends borders to realize this lateral universality that glides from city to city throughout this immense human chain.