Otobong Nkanga investigates the movement of minerals, commodities, bodies and landscapes through drawings, installations, tapestries and performance. Mining, extraction and trade appear not as distant economic abstractions but as processes that alter land and social relationships.
Installation; drawing; tapestry; performance
Artist Films
Otobong Nkanga: Portals to Other Worlds
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Major Works
- 2017Carved to Flow
- 2014In Pursuit of Bling
- 2015Tsumeb Fragments
- 2012Contained Measures of Shifting States
- 2015Solid Maneuvers
- 2010Taste of a Stone
- 2015From Where I Stand
- 2014 onwardLandversation
- 2015Anamnesis
- 2019Manifest of Strains
Interviews & Writing
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