Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
5 c-print mounted on aluminium
(90 x 118 cm ; 90x57 cm ; 90 x 118 cm : 45 x 57 cm ; 45 x 57 cm) Overall : 90 x 350 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 1 AP
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Otobong Nkanga : From Where I Stand. Installation view, Tate St Ives. Photo © Tate (Joe Humphrys & Oli Cowling), 2019
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Otobong Nkanga : From Where I Stand. Installation view, Tate St Ives. Photo © Tate (Joe Humphrys & Oli Cowling), 2019
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Otobong Nkanga : From Where I Stand. Installation view, Tate St Ives. Photo © Tate (Joe Humphrys & Oli Cowling), 2019
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Solo Exhibition view
"When Looking Across the Sea, do you Dream?", 2021
Villa Arson, Nice, France
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
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Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
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Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
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Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
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Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view
Galerie In Situ-fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris, 2016
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view
Galerie In Situ-fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris, 2016
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view :
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
"From Where I Stand", 2020
© Hynes Photography
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view :
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
"From Where I Stand", 2020
© Hynes Photography
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view :
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
"From Where I Stand", 2020
© Hynes Photography
Otobong Nkanga
Emptied Remains (Color of Nature is definitely Green), 2004-2015
Exhibition view :
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
"From Where I Stand", 2020
© Hynes Photography
Emptied remains (Color of Nature is Definitely Green), 2004-2015
Photographic project relating to the changing landscape in Luneburger Heide region, Germany and Lagos, Nigeria.
This project focuses on the Hohe Heide, a region in northern Germany situated in the triangle between the three major cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Hannover.
Otobong Nkanga to explores the Hohe Heide through photography, revealing the changing states farmlands adjusting to a new economical situation. The landscape describes the social and political changes in the Hohe Heide, which disappear behind its picturesque beauty for the eye of a visitor: This scenery is a smoke screen to reality.