★★★★★ A World In Common has been curated with an admirably light touch – well, structured and tightly edited so that the work has space to breathe There are big, important, heavy issues here, but also so much delight 🖋️ HettieJudah
, icy fury at historic brutality and cultural erasure. Some photos evoke a bittersweet sense of elegy, others a rousing sense of purpose. There is also space here for shared joy.
The exhibition starts with George Osodi’s magisterial portraits of kings and queens of the various peoples that make up present-day Nigeria. HRM Agbogidi Obi James Ikechukwu Anyasi II, Obi of Idumuje Unor sits in a stone niche in a high collar and red, gold and green beaded crown.As with most of the monarchs in Osodi’s portraits, his neck is strung with centuries-old ceremonial strands of coral – great fat cylindrical beads of the stuff, many kilos in weight.
In a few photographs we see computer circuit boards being melted down in little frying pans to extract their metals. This is where our European electronic consumer goods end up – we should not fool ourselves that what littlehappens in the disposal of our stuff is a clean or safe process, for those who carry it out or for their surrounding environment.
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