Recycling Discarded Histories to Chronicle Identities: Making Art from Waste in Mozambique

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI:10.16995/OLH.357
Amy Schwartzott
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Contemporary Mozambican artists who utilize recyclia as media create artworks that chronicle their society through bits and pieces of its discarded histories. Creating quintessentially Mozambican art, symbolic materials become potent signifiers of this developing nation. This article explores multivalent themes including object materiality, recycling, art making in Africa, and post-conflict resolution to determine why and how Mozambican artists utilize post-consumer waste. Factors including past wars, poverty, and a quest for creative expansion have contributed to widespread use of recycling as an artistic practice in Mozambique, despite artists’ varied economic, social, and educational levels. Mozambican artists who recycle their nation’s pre-used remnants not only connect to past cultural and artistic practices; they continue these traditions within contemporary contexts. By creating artwork from cast-off materials, artists illustrate how recycling permeates all levels of society, including its broad expansion into art making, and how the use of reprocessed materials both inspires and instills a sense of pride in artistic practices. Themes addressed in artwork made from recyclia include politics, social commentary, and cultural heritage. Artists include Fiel, who transforms destroyed weapons of Mozambique’s past wars into powerful tools for peacebuilding and post-conflict resolution; Carmen, who uses her old dresses to create hanging fabric pieces that capture shadows creating dissonance between light and dark; Joao, who calls for donations of jeans on Facebook that he will patch together and use as a variegated background supports for painting; and Pekiwa, who critiques Mozambican society through his use of recycled boats, windows, and doors.
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将废弃的历史回收为编年史身份:莫桑比克的废物艺术
当代莫桑比克艺术家利用回收物作为媒介,创作艺术品,通过被丢弃的历史碎片来记录他们的社会。创造典型的莫桑比克艺术,象征性材料成为这个发展中国家的有力标志。本文探讨了多种主题,包括物品的物质性、回收利用、非洲的艺术创作和冲突后的解决方案,以确定莫桑比克艺术家为什么以及如何利用消费后的废物。尽管莫桑比克艺术家的经济、社会和教育水平各不相同,但过去的战争、贫困和对创造性扩张的追求等因素,促成了回收利用作为一种艺术实践在莫桑比克的广泛使用。莫桑比克艺术家们回收他们国家以前使用过的残余物,不仅与过去的文化和艺术实践联系起来;他们在当代的环境中延续着这些传统。艺术家们用废弃材料创作艺术品,展示了回收如何渗透到社会的各个层面,包括它在艺术创作中的广泛扩展,以及再利用材料如何在艺术实践中激发和灌输一种自豪感。由回收物制成的艺术品的主题包括政治、社会评论和文化遗产。艺术家包括菲尔,他将莫桑比克过去战争中被摧毁的武器转化为建设和平和冲突后解决方案的有力工具;卡门(Carmen)用她的旧裙子创作出悬挂式布料,捕捉阴影,创造出明暗之间的不和谐;Joao在Facebook上呼吁捐赠牛仔裤,他会把这些牛仔裤拼接在一起,作为绘画的杂色背景;还有Pekiwa,他通过使用回收的船只、窗户和门来批评莫桑比克社会。
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Open Library of Humanities
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24
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15 weeks
期刊介绍: The Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal open to submissions from researchers working in any humanities'' discipline in any language. The journal is funded by an international library consortium and has no charges to authors or readers. The Open Library of Humanities is digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS archive.
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