AFRICAN WOMAN TEACHES EUROPEAN ARTISTS HOW TO CARRY HEAVY LOADS ON HER HEAD

2011

 

Video performance

 

.the result of the moment when in Uganda I hired a banana seller to teach me how to carry burdens on my head. It is part of a block of similar works in which I explore the problematics of global capitalism, information era, its environmental and social sustainability issues.

 

The current circumstances leave each of us in uncertainty within a world where the basic features of life in community and capacity for dialogue are endangered, due a fragile state of relations, not to say the loss of ideal categories such as happiness, equality and freedom.

 

By comparing the African woman professional activity to mine, I bring about questions of labour conditions, wealth distribution and opportunities, adding a sense of transformation, in this case by the act of teaching and learning, as another example of exchange and dialogue that can lead us to a better understanding of realities, a fairer management of their resources, and our proximity to others. This is often made by fiction, as it is done by life.