Eca Eps, GRA, installation view, Eva Maria Ocherbauer 2017.
Eca Eps, GRA, artist at set up, Eva Maria Ocherbauer 2017.
Born Nigeria (1986), lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and London, United Kingdom
GRA [Government Reserved Area] 2017
site-specific installation
Courtesy of the artist
With a title that plays with the politics of the street, GRA maps the boundaries between public and private, as well as conditions affected by status, class and continual territorial struggles. In the framing of Lagos as a place of contradiction, in which opposing truths can be evident all at once, and its inhabitants ‘living on the edge,’ GRA alludes to ‘the politics of the belly’ and the big state. Stripping the road from its original context and situating it in an exhibition context within a reclaimed space, the installation becomes a performative exercise in the privatization of the public.
