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Apnavi Makanji b. 1976
Styx, 2020Mixed media and found objects on Elf Congo blueprint
(HSN Code: 970300)55 x 35 inchesCopyright Apnavi Makanji, 2020Styx is an installation made of found objects and based on blueprints made by the Elf petroleum company in the 1980s. They represent the sites of crude oil extraction throughout...Styx is an installation made of found objects and based on blueprints made by the Elf petroleum company in the 1980s. They represent the sites of crude oil extraction throughout West Africa – namely Angola, Congo and the Republic of Chad. The title refers
to the river Styx, death and the use of currency as safe passage into the depths of the Underworld. The work draws analogies on extractivism, slave labor and the civil wars that Elf manipulated to its advantage, fuelling the neo-colonialism that the French State profited from.Literature
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