Otobong Nkanga

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Tent. "Crumbling Through Powdery Air ", Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 16-07-2015, 06-09-2015 ; "Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine", Parijs, KADIST, 27-09-2015, 20-12-2015 ; "Bruises and Lustre", Antwerpen, M HKA, 16-10-2015, 17-01-2016. - Monografie toont een breed overzicht van het werk van de Nigeriaanse kunstenaar Otobong Nkanga uit de periode 2013 tot 2016. - Otobong Nkanga's first monograph charts an intensely productive period from 2013 to 2016. Its title encapsulates the complex concerns that underpin these shows: "luster," the illustrious shining of materials; and "lucre," profits and gains. With the mineral mica as her starting point, Nkanga's research took her to archives in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Windhoek, and led her along a colonial railroad in Namibia to the historic Tsumeb mine. This rich research became works that probe the ambivalence of that which shines: poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances that are both gestural and dialogical.