Wednesday, January 31, 2007

AKPAJA (PUNCHING BAG)


Alozie C. Onyirioha. Punching bags. 2006. installation, clay and wrought iron. 210cmx140cmx34cm.


Three longtitudinal pouches of clay suspended from the horizontal bar of a swing-like wrought iron structure characterises this work of art.
Akpaja, lliterarily translated to mean sandbag or punching bag, is a piece of instalmental sculpture that metaphorically issues out a silent satarical diatribe against the attitude of the Nigerian politicians who , like the boxer that hurls his punches at random on the punching bag, aim their selfish, myopic and shallow policies at the general nigerian populace, nonchallant and oblivious of their resultant effect on the economy.

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