Otobong Nkanga

Visual artist and live performer, living and working in Antwerp, Belgium.
I work in a broad spectrum of media such as installations, photography, drawings and sculpture.
Making use of my body and voice in live performances/videos or sometimes becoming the protagonist in some of my photography works to convey and interrogate implications of our acts in varied environments and contexts. I take inspiration from my surroundings, to create works that can be placed in disparate environments and these are often fragments of a multimedia work in progress.
My works are a result of observation and sensations of the everyday influences in our social developments/changes in our environment and culture.
In my pluri-disciplinary approach, the individual is constantly confronted with its own fragility. It puts forward personal autobiographical elements which accentuates and exposes the frailty and instability of man in its environment.

Recent exhibitions and performances include: Across the Board: Politics of Representation, Tate Modern, The Tanks, London, United Kingdom (2012); Inventing world: The Artist as citizen, Biennale Benin, Cotonou, Benin (2012); 50 Days at Sea, Antwerp Pavilion, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2012); Tropicomania: The Social life of Plantes, Betonsalon, Center of art and research. Associated venue of La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity. Paris, France (2012); and Object Atlas – Fieldwork in the Museum, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. (2012). ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contempoarary Art, Helsinki, Finland.(2011)