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Installation, Found Objects on Paper
Size: 32.6 W x 81.1 H x 1.9 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Am looking at the problems of transition, collecting the remains from demolition sites, houses that were owned by either colonialists or Indians. I collect doors and windows from this sites which remind most Kenyans and Africans at large of the spaces that they could not access unless they workers. The doors and windows then work as frames to tell the story about the African. In changing his life mode or having it changed for him, what kind of personal problems he face? How does it affect his life and thought as an individual? For the African, to go forward is to abandon the past in which the roots of his being have their nourishment; to go backward is to cut himself off from the future, for there is no doubt about where the future lies. The African has been taught to abandon his old ways, yet he is not accepted in the new world even when he has mastered its ways. There seems to be no bridge, and this is the source of his terrible loneliness
Original Created:
2019
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Multi-paneled Installation:
Found Objects on Paper
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
32.6 W x 81.1 H x 1.9 D in
Number of Panels:
2
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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Ships From:
Kenya.
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Multi-award-winning artist, Onyis Martin was born in Kisumu, Kenya in 1987 and moved to Nairobi when he was six. Growing up, aside from school he kept himself out of trouble by playing football and doing art. When he graduated from high school, he rejected his father’s wish that he go to university and instead launched full time into fine art, which he initially developed through apprenticeships at the Godown Arts Centre and Kuona Trust in Nairobi. He is now based out of the Kobo Trust, where along with other artists, he mentors and facilitates aspiring artists with opportunities to develop their talent. Experimenting with a wide range of materials, Martin explores the human condition and the global geo-political interface, specifically through issues surrounding human trafficking, migration, corruption and displacement. Additionally, he explores matters surrounding communication, the rapidly changing technological environment and the consumerism that surrounds it. Using his personal experience as a point of departure, he interweaves individual and collective experiences highlighting the varying yet similar experiences people have in different places globally. In his most recent group of works, Talking Walls (2016), Martin extended his exploration of how information depends on and is influenced by freedom and social structure towards investigating the rise of consumerism.
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