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Nnenna Okore
Lifeforce; 2012.
This Nigerian artist works with an environmental mission, using recycled material to regenerate a manmade landscape that is ecologically friendly. The passage of time weathers on one’s physicality, and yet weakened material can still be used to create delicate and lively forms.
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El Anatsui
A video depicting his process, a communal endeavor in which recycled materials make larger than life compositions.
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Kara Walker
Resurrection Story with Patrons, 2017.
A look at the Middle Passage through the use of shadows. You will notice that much of Walker’s work pulls from a tradition of silhouetting, a purposeful response to stereotyping.
“The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does, so I saw the silhouette and stereotype as linked. Of course, while the stereotype, or the emblem, can communicate with a lot of people, and a lot of people can understand it, the other side is that it also reduces differences, reduces diversity to that stereotype“ - Kara Walker
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Gonçalo Mabunda
Untitled Mask; recycled material from the Civil War in Mozambique; 2013.
In 1992, Mozambique ended a sixteen-year war that largely divided the region. Mabunda uses the materials recovered at the end of the conflict was a way to anthropomorphize weaponry.
Mabunda draws on the collective memory of his country, Mozambique, which has only recently emerged from a long and terrible civil war. He works with arms recovered in 1992 at the end of the sixteen-year conflict that divided the region. “The deactivated weapons of war carry strong political connotations, yet the beautiful objects he creates also convey a positive reflection on the transformative power of art and the resilience and creativity of African civilian societies.” - Jack Bell Gallery
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Gonçalo Mabunda
War Throne, metal and recycled gun parts; 2014.
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Gonçalo Mabunda
Untitled Mask; recycled material from the Civil War in Mozambique; 2016.
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Aïda Muluneh
An Idle Mind; 2014.
Aïda Muluneh was born in Ethiopia in 1974, but left at a young age and grew up between Yemen, England, and Canada. She attended Howard University in 2000 and worked as a photojournalist for the Washington Post. She founded DESTA (Developing and Educating Society Through Art), and uses the platform to education, curate, and develop projects that embed themselves in cultural heritage and creative expression. Her work seeks to interrogate perceptions of African womanhood and identity through the impact of the colonial experience.
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Laolu Senbanjo
2018.
Laolu Senbanjo worked at the Human Rights Commission as a human rights attorney and witnessed the struggle that people were enduring. It deeply troubled Senbanjo, and he used art as a way to channel all the energy. Laoulu moved to New York to pursue art full time. He began to use everything as his canvas, shoes, clothes, bodies. He found that people loved wearing their stories. He began to imagine what it might look like for people to walk around carrying their stories with them; art in motion. Infused with Yoruba mythology, and Nigerian influence, the white paint has become internationally recognized especially after his work was featured in Beyoncé's Lemonade music video.
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Charles Higgins
Chester Higgins was born in 1946 in Fairhope, Alabama. For over five decades, Higgins used the camera to narrate the stories that often go unseen. His focus has been on ordinary people and the rituals that take place regularly which elucidate the cultural expression and richness of life.
Higgins uses art as a spiritual project, a medium for engaging the present, past, and future- a journey into the individual and collective memories that define who we are.
"Art is an expression of the soul that gives visual definition to an experience.” - Chester Higgins
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