"Chief Chair Shuffle"

150 x 150 x 75 cm, © 2018, not for sale
Three-dimensional | Sculpture | Wood

Here you see, far to the right, the specially ordered 'Big 167 Chief Chair' (amount of international NGO’s in Malawi) and to the far left you see the 'Big Six Chief Chair', which talks about the 6 multinational seed companies (taking over more and more small businesses, claiming copywrites and put structures in order to control this market more and more) and in the middle the 'Big Ten Chief Chair' (about the 10 food multinationals).
 


All 3 chairs are special ordered by the artist, in response to the chairs which are specially made for tourists, thinking they are buying something "originally African", which originally function as an attribute of power, as a tribal symbol and for a westerner a piece of ethnic art.


What is originally, or specific, African tradition culture, is shifting, raising the question: who do you allow having a sit on your chair and change your direction?