Kawokudi Installation, 2013 Dimensions Variable. ,2013
Provenance : [Timeline chronologique]
2013-01-01 | Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Accra; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013
2014-11-02 | Exhibited Accra, Ghana, Kawokudi, Coal Sack Installation, 2013 London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, 2 April – 2 November 2014 London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea II: New Art From Africa and Latin America, 11 March 2015 – 17 September 2015
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- Literature Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, exh. cat., Saatchi Gallery, London, 2014, p. 89 (illustrated)
- The present installation is representative of the sustained employment of jute sacks within his practice
- Made in Southeast Asia, the sacks are imported by the Ghana Cocoa Boards to package cocoa beans for export
- The used sacks are repurposed to carry animal feed, coal, and charcoal around the country for domestic consumption
- Mahama consequently employs the jute sacks as material metaphors for the global circulation of commodities that pass through Ghana and its associated socio-economic inequities
- The reuse and transformation of the raw materials employed in the present installation embodies the artist's political message: 'I have a vision of art that can affect change rather than being about producing beautiful commodities for sale on the market'
- Mahama's vast sack forms have been installed over a variety of buildings in his native Ghana including theatres, luxury apartments, and social housing projects
- They have also been the centrepiece of the artist's participation in the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2015 and Documenta 14 in 2017
- The present work has previously been exhibited in Accra in 2013 and at the Saatchi Gallery in London in both 2014 and 2015
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