photo: Elolo Bosoka
Object Permanence, 2019-2022
at Collega gallery, Copenhagen, 22nd SPet - 17 Dec 2022
The works are a part of a group show along with artistis: Theresah Ankomah, Benedikte Bjerre, Elolo Bosoka, Ibrahim Mahama.
Curaterd by Lotte Løvholm and blaxTARLINES
Collega’s inaugural exhibition Surplus is a collaboration with Ghanaian art community blaxTARLINES Kumasi. Curated with blaxTARLINES member Mavis Tetteh-Ocloo, Surplus explores found objects in relation to consumption and global circulation in a contemporary context. In a world where goods and services are constantly moving within and across geopolitical boundaries, yet with an imbalanced distribution of production against consumption, systemic economic failures have resulted in excess production, leading to a mass global wastage.
The exhibition title is taken from Magda Buczek’s SURPLUS series, a humorous and critical engagement with overproduction. The main tools of SURPLUS are language and waste seen as an effect of late capitalism’s excesses, hoarding and cyclical circulating of goods. Slogan inspired texts are placed on the surfaces of old garments, leftover textiles and waste banners. For this exhibition Buczek revisits her textile work OBJECTS CONTNUE TO EXIST WHEN OUT OF OUR HANDS (2019), presenting it as window text in the exhibition space, while showing the textile work in public space at Elijah’s Church in central Vesterbro, Copenhagen. The work deals with object permanence from developmental psychology: Things continue to exist even when not perceived by the one who looks. The textile is composed of waste pieces collected in garbage dumps, households and from a hospice put in the context of the sustainability and longevity of everyday objects.
