Exhibition devoted to mining in Africa for the National Art Gallery

By Natasha Jacha

The National Art Gallery of Namibia will host a solo exhibition, "TERRA", by South African artist Jeannette Unite. The exhibition will be officially opened on July 19th and will continue until September 6th.

According to a statement this week, the exhibition has been shown in museums and university art galleries in Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Europe, China and Uzbekistan.

The exhibition focuses primarily on mining in Africa and was produced in response to a wide range of mining and industrial sites in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and Southern Africa. . around the tax on mining companies and the legal aspects of mining rights and the impact on socio-political issues, "reads the statement.

The artist has traveled over thirty countries accumulating full personal archives of images and mining equipment. This includes the first historical geological maps and texts that were created during the Industrial Revolution to guide the extraction of coal that fueled the engines of modernity.

Unite's work focuses on the mining industry, the depletion of resources in Africa and the economic and sociological conditions. impacted her large-scale drawings of the millinery and industrial complexes are executed with chalks and pastels that the artist makes, using minerals that she gets mines as waste byproducts after l & rsquo; Ore extraction.

pains to root a fundamental critique of how mining has shattered lives, displaced communities and ravaged the environment.

The artist is a very active researcher both in the archives for the sources and for the mines and the communities that provide manpower for their operation.

It explores the impact and relationships between power and the earth through the mechanisms, both technical and social of our modern world, that are inextricably linked to mining.