Ambush #11: Serge Clottey

The Ambush #11: Serge Clottey is carried out in collaboration with Museu Tàpies and brings together a group of participants convened by einaidea and Periferia Cimarronas for the collaborative construction of a large mural piece, which is installed on the museum’s facade during 6 months: a modular object made of recycled plastic whose installation is also accompanied by a performative action in the public space.

The project emerges from Serge Clottey's practice around what the artist has named "Afrogallonism". The abundance of yellow plastic gallons in the African continent visibilizes its geopolitical history as well as its neocolonial present. The reuse of scraps of this material—cut, perforated, and woven by hand—as well as its iteration and repurposing serves in Clottey's work as a model of redistribution, as well as a vehicle for reflection on the migratory and economic reality on the African continent.

Following the construction and installation of the work on the façade of Fundació Tàpies, a performative takes place on Tuesday 2 July, conceived by Clottey together with all participants. Thus, the project brings together reflections around waste ecology and geopolitics, as well as the dress and the mask as vehicles of celebration, community invocation and Pan-African resistance.

Activity carried out with the support from the Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de España.