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New York 2015

  • 1-54 Forum 2015
  • Exhibitors 2015

Edson ChagasAPALAZZOGALLERY

Born in 1977 in Luanda, Angola. Lives and works in Luanda

Edson Chagas, OIKONOMOS, 2011, C-Type print, edition of 3 + 2 A.P. 100 x 100 cm / 39.37 x 39.37 in, Courtesy of the artist and APALAZZOGALLERY 

Edson Chagas uses photography as a process in which he not only investigates daily life but also employs images in a pointed critique of consumerism. Images obtained from the everyday ‘things’ that surround us, in this sense, become existential beings. A key series of his is Oikonomos (2011), described by Chagas as a ‘forensic analysis’ of the global financial crisis. As a result of this crisis, Chagas started collecting carrier bags to document the trading of companies in Angola. Placed over his head and performatively styled as self-portraits, the bags trace a consumer history in an age of hurtling capitalism.

Chagas was subject to wide acclaim at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, having been the principal exhibitor of the Angola Pavilion which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Recent exhibitions include the itinerant The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists in 2014–2015 (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, the US, and the National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the US).

Selected Artists

Conrad Botes

Ibrahim Mahama

Bouabré, Frédéric Bruly

Sammy Baloji

Boutté, Nathalie

Mika, JP

Cissé, Soly

Mansaray, Abu Bakarr

Artists 2015

  • A

    • Abdoulaye Konaté
    • Aboudia
    • Alaoui, Leila
    • Andrianomearisoa, Joël
    • Asha Zero
    • Ayana V. Jackson
  • B

    • Bandoma, Steve
    • Barend de Wet
    • Bobson Sukhdeo Mohanlall
    • Boua, Armand
    • Bouabré, Frédéric Bruly
    • Boutté, Nathalie
    • Bright Ugochukwu Eke
    • Bruce Clarke
  • C

    • Calixte Dakpogan
    • Cissé, Soly
    • Conrad Botes
  • D

    • Daniel Blom
    • Diop, Omar Victor
  • E

    • Edson Chagas
  • G

    • Gbré, François-Xavier
    • Gérard Quenum
  • H

    • Hazoumè, Romuald
  • I

    • Ibrahim Mahama
  • J

    • Jean-Claude Moschetti
    • Jim Chuchu
  • K

    • Keïta, Seydou
    • Kentridge, William
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Kura Shomali
  • L

    • Lavar Munroe
    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
    • Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Maïmouna Guerresi
    • Mansaray, Abu Bakarr
    • Megumi Matsubara
    • Michéa, Vincent
    • Mika, JP
    • Monsengo Shula
    • Monteiro, Fabrice
    • Mudariki, Richard
  • N

    • Ndiaye, Cheikh
    • Nidhal Chamekh
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Ojeikere, J.D. ‘Okhai
    • Olu Amoda
    • Owusu-Ankomah
  • P

    • Paul Sika
    • Peter E Clarke
  • R

    • Ransome Stanley
    • Rim Battal
    • ruby onyinyechi amanze
  • S

    • Samba, Chéri
    • Sammy Baloji
    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Sidibé, Malick
  • T

    • Theo Eshetu
    • Toyin Loye
    • Tshindele, Pathy
  • V

    • van Hove, Eric
    • Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo
  • W

    • Wayne Barker
  • Y

    • Younès Baba-Ali
  • Z

    • Zangewa, Billie

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