MAP OF RESOURCES: Espace doual'art

At doual’art (Douala) Map of Resources takes us into this fertile land with an installation transforming the large exhibition space into an extraction site.

 

From the earth emerge sculpted busts and heads representing the workforce. Their blue colour evokes the cobalt embedded in the soil, covering the workers’ skin, in an aesthetic harking back to ancient ceramics. In glass jars, sculpted forms resembling precious minerals are topped with small anthropomorphic figurines inspired by Kota reliquaries. Their blue helmet symbolises their protective role, not without conveying the ambiguous nature of peacekeeping military presence on African soil.