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Recovered bags - bag as material and idea

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Cover Story II. On the Vastness of the Universe (About Black and the Bag Wall Series), 2025


Threaded plastic bags

220 x 550 x 229 cm

This body of work explores the use of discarded plastic bags as both material and concept. Through processes of collection, transformation, and reworking, the bags are reconfigured into sculptural and spatial forms that reflect on use, value, and everyday exchange.

 
The work considers the bag not only as an object, but as a carrier of movement, consumption, and social interaction, allowing familiar materials to take on new presence and meaning.
Okafor Amarachi, Setting Weak Foundation I, 2019, Setting Weak Foundation I, 2019- copy.ti

Setting Weak Foundation, 2017-2021

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Used Cement Bags, Used Boxes (Cartons)

Variable dimensions. In 10 parts

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We Trusted, So We Gave You Our Hearts, Gathered in a Bag, and We Waited (About Blag Bags and the Bag Wall Series), 2025​

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Recovered used plastic bags, Thread

208 x 220 x 70 cm

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We Trusted, So We Gave You Our Hearts, Gathered in a Bag, and We Waited (About Blag Bags and the Bag Wall Series), Detail, 2025​

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Recovered used plastic bags, Thread

208 x 220 x 70 cm

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City Bags II: Bags for Hardship Allowance and Maximum Wage, 2017-2019

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Ghana-must-go bags (Polypropylene, aka Moplen Plastic Sheeting

Blue 1 - 110 x 65 x 34 cm. Blue 2 - 113 x 65 x 34 cm. Red - 118 x 60 x 34 cm. Red & Blue - 119 x 80 x 43 cm

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Japa Containers: The Strength of Those That Left, And The Building Blocks of Those Who Stay, 2023​

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Recovered emptied cement bags (Polypropylene plastic), emptied product boxes and iron

150 x 650 x 118 cm

Laying Up Treasures on Earth, Where Thieves Approach and Moth Destroy

Laying Up Treasures on Earth, Where Thieves Approach and Moth Destroy​

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Wood, Burlap and Stoles

Variable Dimensions

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Herdsmen Bagged, 2017-2019

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Bag, basket, copper-wire, synthetic, leather, fabric, wood, metal rings wires, and metal pole

144 x 85 x 22 cm

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The Colour of our Hearts is the Colour of our City, 2015-2019​

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Multi-dimensional: Participation activity/People, Fabric offcuts, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Metal, Bolts and nuts, MDF tables, Thread, Books, Text

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