Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites

Beschrijving

Tent. Mainz, Kunsthalle Mainz, 27-10-2023, 11-02-2023. - Brochure bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling toont werk van de Congolese kunstenaar Sammy Baloji en Nilla Banguna, Jackson Bukasa & Dan Kayeye & Justice KasongoSybil Coovi Handemagnon, Fundi Mwamba Gustave & Antje Van WichelenFranck Moka, Hadassa Ngamba, Isaac Sahani Dato, Georges Senga, Julia Tröscher. - In his artistic work Sammy Baloji investigates the history of mining in his home city of Lubumbashi, located in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He contrasts the profound destruction of the environment and social structures to the memories and hopes of people in the Katanga region. Key elements of his artistic practice are to encourage collaboration between art producers, activists, and academics as well as bringing together many different kinds of knowledge and production. His invitation to 12 artists in both the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Europe with whom he regularly interacts is a continuation of this development of collective structures that he views as a strategy of resistance to extractivism, an economic model in which raw materials are “extracted” from nature.