Artist Otobong Nkanga’s work [deze text is vuller, afkomstig van gallery website] “foregrounds ecological themes of relationality and becoming through a distilled poetics of entanglement. Her multidisciplinary practice examines the complex social, political, and material relationships between bodies, territories, minerals and the earth. Unsettling the divisions between minimal and conceptual or sensual and surreal approaches, the artist’s research-based practice constellates humans and landscapes, organic and non-organic matter, Global North and Global South economies. Through drawing, installation, performance, photography, textiles and sculpture, Nkanga creates pathways translating the natural world – its plants, herbs, minerals and living organisms – into networked, aggregated situations evoking memory, labour, home, care, ownership, emotion, touch and smell.”

Alterscape Stories (2006) | Otobong Nkanga

Alterscape Stories: Uprooting the past refers to the erasing of the past and installing of the present and how these actions alter the landscape, visualising the human as creator/destructor.