Iyarara: Loss and Found

Nsabimana, Jean Claude

Iyarara: Loss and Found

Thesis / Dissertation

2023

Abstract

This MFA research project investigates the issue of e-waste in Africa, drawing attention to the cycle of trade associated with the extraction and exploitation of minerals in Africa and the impact on the environment and lives of people on the continent. The project uses e-waste to highlight sponsored conflict in Africa, the displacement of millions of people and the dumping of outdated and unwanted electronic goods back on the continent. The attendant exhibition, foregrounded the impact of colonialism, capitalism and the competition for mineral resources that have impacted millions of lives. Personal experience is woven into this wasted landscape, considering the repurposed materials used by many artists in Africa historically and contemporarily and their relationship both to these social and environmental issues and to European and North American art history.

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Fine Arts

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