Collection Bag as Medium and Idea from Amarachi Okafor (Orie) | Artwork Archive

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Collection: Bag as Medium and Idea

Bag as material, bag as concept, including 'About Black Series', and other works.
Ecology, History, Human Actions, Consumption, Human Condition

Cover Story II. On the Vastness of the Universe (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Cover Story II. On the Vastness of the Universe..., 2025

Recovered used plastic bags, Thread

220 x 550 x 229 cm

(86.61 x 216.54 x 90.16 in)

We Trusted, So We Gave You Our Hearts, Gathered in a Bag, and We Waited (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

We Trusted, So We Gave You Our Hearts, Gathered..., 2025

Recovered used plastic bags, Thread

208 x 220 x 70 cm

(81.89 x 86.61 x 27.56 in)

Cashless Society Bags (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Cashless Society Bags (About Black and the Bag ..., 2024

Recovered used plastic bags, Thread

230 x 206 x 50 cm

(90.55 x 81.1 x 19.69 in)

Couple by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Couple, 2024

Used cement bags, Used boxes (cartons)

188 x 246.4 x 238.8 cm

(74.02 x 97.01 x 94.02 in)

Japa Containers: The Strength of Those That Left, And The Building Blocks of Those Who Stay by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Japa Containers: The Strength of Those That Lef..., 2023

Recovered emptied cement bags (Polypropylene plastic), emptied product boxes and iron

150 x 650 x 118 cm

(59.06 x 255.91 x 46.46 in)

She Laughs at the Future by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

She Laughs at the Future, 2022

Fabric offcuts, Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Recovered used plastic bag, Adhesive, Electric wire, Pastel on Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

32 x 195 x 7 cm

(12.6 x 76.77 x 2.76 in)

Setting Weak Foundation by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Setting Weak Foundation, 2017-2021

Used Cement Bags, Used Boxes (Cartons)

Variable Dimensions. in 10 parts.

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City, 2015-2019

Multi-dimensional: Participation activity/People, Fabric offcuts, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Metal, Bolts and nuts, MDF tables, Thread, Books, Text

How to Frame and Please Six Women at Once by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

How to Frame and Please Six Women at Once, 2019

Fabric offcuts, Used plastic bags on Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

(13.78 x 60.24 in)

Herdsmen Bagged by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Herdsmen Bagged, 2017-2019

Bag, basket, copper-wire, synthetic, leather, fabric, wood, metal rings wires, and metal pole

144 x 85 x 22 cm

(56.69 x 33.46 x 8.66 in)

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