dx/dy
2023, cashew shells and nuts, photos, calabash cups, thesis covers; installation, variable dimensions
Part of the series of works dedicated to the organic library of the cashew, “dx/dy” highlights the different perceptions of specific properties of the plant by both the plant itself and humans. The knowledge of the former, aimed at protecting the seeds, harms the latter. The dualities are shown on the covers of theses to emphasise alternative forms of knowledge processing and circulation.
Exhibition
The Legend of Cashew-head Persons, 2023, Former FORIG, KNUST, Kumasi (Ghana), curated by Zoe KɔKɔɔ
Atiāa Duase. A-signifying Allegory, 2023, Department of Animal Science and Technology, KNUST, Kumasi (Ghana), curated by Zoe KɔKɔɔ
Description
Five calabash cups are filled with cashew nutshells as a bed for a kernel. In each cup, a photo depicting hands whose skin has been attacked by the CNSL. As a base, the dark-blue front covers of Master dissertations – whose content is no longer on pages, on texts – printed on gold respectively with the words: care toxicity; coating peeling; oil acid; protect corrode; stick silk.
The artwork introduces a world of consistent contradictions allocated inside the cashew nut. Something that simultaneously protects the seed and erodes the human epithelium. It depends on the perspective printed on each cover and is it the title of the work. To say with Gilles Deleuze on Leibniz’s philosophy “knowledge is known only where it folded”[1]. A different formulation of theses.
[1] Gilles Deuleze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 1993, p. 49
Image Credits
Category
- Installation
