The Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos presents Kader Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 an exhibition on view 28 January–4 February 2012.
On the occasion of the Occupy Nigeria forum, CCA, Lagos has the pleasure of presenting a video work by the Algerian artist Kader Attia. A single screen projection, Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 (2007) is an evocative four and half minute video work portraying the interplay of two raw materials: oil and sugar. Replete with allusions to ephemerality, destruction and transformation, Attia’s video, and the material substances with which it engages, elicits timely associations with colonial and imperial legacies and their residual effects on the present.
Born in 1970 in Dugny, France to parents of Algerian origin, Attia studied philosophy and art in Paris and Barcelona before spending two years doing national civil service in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2003), Lyon Biennial (2005), and the Bamako Biennale (2009). He lives and works in Berlin and Algiers.
Kader Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 is organised by Jude Anogwih.
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