Korumbo guardian spirit

Mixed media, variable dimensions

Installation shots of the group show Reflexions on psychedelia, CAN Gallery, Athens, 2014

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Korumbo guardian spirit is a site specific sculptural totem. The artwork is inspired by the giant spirit Nggwal, personified as noises that can be heard coming from the ancestral place Haus Tambaran, in the Tambaran culture of Oceania. The artist transforms Nggwal, unguided and not at all friendly to women, into the guardian spirit of the exhibition space.

In a loose metaphor of the exotic atmosphere of the haus tambaran, where psychedelia converses with anthropology and art, the work recycles everyday scraps, turning them into colour. 

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