El Anatsui
Gal-Ams, 2025
Aluminium and copper wire
256 x 250 cm
© El Anatsui.
Abstracted from Ghanaian word ‘Galamsey’ which is about illegal surface mining ( of gold,diamonds etc) and the tremendous devastation it inflicts on land and waters which have all turned shades...
Abstracted from Ghanaian word ‘Galamsey’ which is about illegal surface mining ( of gold,diamonds etc) and the tremendous devastation it inflicts on land and waters which have all turned shades of brown and unusable for anything , land not even farmable and laden with dangerous toxins , mercury, cyanide etc.
This at world level has generated not issues around physical environment but the many wars and slipping into ‘power is might ‘ which overrides law etc.
This at world level has generated not issues around physical environment but the many wars and slipping into ‘power is might ‘ which overrides law etc.