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E X H I B I T I O N SEDUARDO LOPEZ MORENO 13th Jan to 24 Feb 2018 in Nairobi Open Classrooms Close the Door to Terrorism Eduardo Lopez Moreno 24th May to 2nd July 2017 in Nairobi 15th March to 22th April 2016 in Nairobi 17th October to 16th December 2016 in Nairobi 1st Nov to 31th Jan 2017 in Brussels 5th April to 10th April 2016 in Nairobi An Exhibition of Black and White Photography Opening March 10th from 6pm in Nairobi 13th to 15th Nov 2015 in Nairobi About beauty and other things… 06 Jun 2015 to 01 Jul 2015 in Nairobi Dead Insects in my Parents Pool Sam Hopkins 28 Mar - 20 May 2012 in Brussels 18 - 22 Jan 2011 in Brussels 15 Nov 2011 in Nairobi 01 Oct to 15 Oct 2009 "Muzei 21" in Moscow |
Dead Insects in my Parents Pool
At first glance they seem almost like scientific specimens, removed from any obvious environment, carefully and obviously composed. However, when contextualised by the title, the idea is that they start to tell a story, to document, albeit somewhat obliquely, the context of having water in a country where many people do not. It is both tragic, but also absurd, that in Kenya many people do not have enough water to drink yet some have enough to fill swimming pools with. However, rather than tell this story through images of drought and opulence, I focussed on drowned insects in a swimming pool. The idea is to acknowledge this wealth chasm using strategies of irony and scale; the insects, but to also acknowledge my own presence within the context; the title...
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