shaa culture

Thursday, March 19, 2009

CASCADES OF SHREDS

CASCADES OF SHREDS
In this work, I shredded water bottles containers and assembled them in a manner scatter all over the place twined together with twin and hung on the wall measuring up to 360cm in height to look like water fall. Explain that it takes an understanding for people to come together, be together and be in unity. This also explains that it takes us an understanding to be aware of the health hazard we are generating and allowed to strive in our society.

CASCADES OF SHREDS

ALOZIE ONYIRIOHA

cascades of shredes

water bottle can, twin,

369cm x 20cm x 90cm

2009

SCRAP FORUM RECOMMENDATION

SCRAP FORUM RECOMMENDATIONS
I was trying to be experimental and adventurous in this artwork. The idea behind the artwork was the creative transformation of trash, and the possibilities of finding harmony in seeming chaotic and purposeless wastes. I believe that every litter has the potential of adopting a new shade of meaning if approached creatively. The fact is that these items ‘speak’ to us, that is, they crave to initiate a dialogue with our imagination. Succumbing and nurturing the significant habit of listening can yield very powerful and functionally relevant works that the environment and the society can benefit from. I am also exposing an aspect of the creativity that was involved in sequences that birthed the assemblage itself, that continuous movement that occurred right from when purchasing of the packets or wrappers industrial goods and its consumption by the end user, to its being left to litter our surroundings and finally to when it is picked up by the artist, who takes it to his studio and worked on it, giving it a new meaning. There is also the possible danger of the public discarding it again, thereby stimulating an indifferent attitude towards our environment, after viewing it with mixed responses especially when it does not make any impact on them. I am using this work to create awareness and stimulate the public to pay attention to the issue of recycling from waste

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Alozie Onyirioha

scrap forum recommendation

buscuit warpper, indomie warpper, etc

240cm x 60cm x60cm

2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

SHREDS IN SPACE

Alozie Onyirioha

Shreds in space

2009

720cmx260cmx260cm

SHREDS IN SPACE

SHREDS IN SPACE
This work consists of shredded water bottle container weaved together with a synthetic twine and stretched on a house like metal structure, measuring 720cm x 260cm x 260cm in a space. The original idea behind this work is to create a structure that will house my exhibited works, thereby saving money and providing me with a free exhibition space that will give people the opportunity to view my works from an advantageous perspective and position. To further elaborate on this, the purpose of shredding office paper is to protect or destroy information for security reasons whether personal or corporate we experience a feeling of comfort in knowing that the shredded information is safe. This comfort owes its place to the apparent belief that the destroyed information would become irretrievable, especially to those who do not already know, even when it is reassembled by one means or the other. Often the method of discard is of no consequence to the disposer especially. As a result these shreds easily find space lying and littering our environments. Ultimately I am engaged in exploring and addressing the nuances of this spatial conflict, this war of space between us and our discarded materials.

SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES

Alozie Onyirioha

beer can, fruit drink can, can coke,

360cmx120cmx14cm

2009

SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES

SHREDDED TRAIL OF UNCERTAINTIES
This work consists of an assemblage of shredded beer cans like fruit drinks, canned coke, etc of different colures that I cut in a flower like shape, measuring 360cm x 120cm x 14cm in variable dimensions arranged within the exhibition space.
In this work I tried to examine the factors that define the concept of the abuse of space and the resultant conflicts that are triggered between the consumers of these products and the nonchalantly discarded cans or packages of these products after these consumers must have exhausted their contents. This struggle for the occupation of space occurs when these discarded items litter the environment and threaten the aesthetic state of the environment. I also encountered, in the process of creating this assemblage, the problem of uncertainty in the sense that the final outlook of the work was not preconceived. This trail of uncertainty was also evident while I was gathering these ordinary discarded tin containers. The nature of the found items sort of dictated the creative process, so that the continual interaction between medium and I was sustained. It was a deliberate approach; one which I hoped will be contagious, in the sense that the viewer of these works will be invited into that interaction.