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The National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) will inaugurate this week "TERRA", a solo exhibition of South African artist Jeannette Unite on Thursday, July 19 at 18:00 in its main gallery
& # 39; TERRA & # 39; has shown in museums and university art galleries in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, China and Uzbekistan.
The exhibition focuses on mining in Africa; this body of work has been produced in response to numerous visits to various mining and industrial sites in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria and southern Africa. It examines the paradox of abundance, corporate constructions around the mining company tax and the legal aspects of mining rights and their impact on socio-political issues.
For over a decade, the bulk of Unite's work has focused on the mining industry, the depletion of resources in Africa and their impact on economic conditions and social. Her large-scale designs of mining headgear and industrial complexes are executed with the help of chalks and pastels that the artist manufactures herself, using the minerals that she mined mines, such as by-products of waste after the extraction of ore. At first glance, these works may seem like lyrical and graceful compositions depicting old mining machines, but Unite strives to incorporate a fundamental critique of how the mining industry has shattered lives, displaced communities and devastated the environment. Unite is a very active researcher in the archives for original material, which allows to draw "on the ground" in the mines themselves as well as communities that provide labor for the field. Mining.
. This includes the first historical geological maps and texts that were created during the Industrial Revolution to guide the exploitation of coal that fueled the engines that drove modernity.
The artist has traveled over 30 countries accumulating an extensive personal archive of images and materials. from the mining industry. The photographs of these travels and images, reproduced from museums and mining archives, are as valuable a resource for Unite as the tailings of sands and sludge at mining sites and industrial detritus soiled with history. , and laden with meaning that she mixes in her paintings and pastels.
The mining works of & # 39; TERRA & # 39; are made from the very mined material that they interrogate, so that the material is both subject and object. Unite explores the impact and relationships between power and the earth through the technical and social mechanisms of our modern world that are inextricably linked to mining.
All wealth comes from the land, with laws and laws access and ownership of the planet's resources.
The exhibition will run until September 6th.
– NAGN
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