Ambush #11: Serge Clottey

The Ambush #11: Serge Clottey, developed in collaboration with the Museu Tàpies, brings together a group of participants convened by einaidea and Periferia Cimarronas to create a mural piece at Eina Bosc: a modular object made of recycled plastic, crafted to cover the museum's façade and whose installation is also accompanied by a performance in the public space. The project emerges from Clottey's practice of what he calls "Afrogallonism," which consists of reusing the characteristic one-gallon (3.8-liter) jugs, ubiquitous in the daily lives of many African countries, whose abundance makes visible the socioeconomic context as well as its neocolonial dependencies. The reuse of scraps of this material—cut, perforated, and woven by hand—, its iteration and reconfiguration serve as a model of redistribution in Clottey's work. A large tapestry made with thousands of yellow tiles is thus installed on the façade of the Museu Tàpies for six months, and the intervention opens with a parade in which the workshop participants display symbolic outfits, created from recycled materials. The inscription “Afrogallonism” is also permanently installed on the wall of the Eina Bosc courtyard.