Rahima Gambo, A Walk sculpture, Lagos, installation views, Lagos Biennial 2019.
Born London, United Kingdom (1986), lives and works in Abuja, Nigeria
A Walk Sculpture, Lagos 2019
Copper piping and found objects
Courtesy of the artist
A Walk Sculpture is a psycho-geographical project that maps an interior cartography from the external environment that Rahima Gambo traverses as she moves throughout cities, in this case, Lagos. This iteration of the project is about embodied experience. A body moving through a landscape and the entanglements that occur during this movement. It’s about Gambo’s footsteps moving through the urban landscape of Lagos and the objects she picks up; plants, soil, slabs of concrete, three lemons, branches and other ephemera are leftover residues of an inner and outer journeying through spatio-temporal experiences with the city.
The installation itself is an exposed living body of sorts, as it represents a system of connections between seemingly disparate objects joined together and given life by copper piping and hollow copper coils, parts from air conditioning units, used here to represent a circulatory system that connects and moves. What remains of A Walk is a memory captured through this installation. The memory of A Walk fades away, just as the organic material in the installation wilts and decomposes over time.
