Collection Recovered bags - bag as material and idea from Orie. (Amarachi Okafor) | Artwork Archive

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Collection: Recovered bags - bag as material and idea

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

We Trusted, So We Gave You Our Hearts, Gathered in a Bag, and We Waited (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 1.

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)

Cover Story II. On the Vastness of the Universe (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 1.

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)

Cashless Society Bags (About Black and the Bag Wall Series) by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 1.

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)

She Laughs at the Future by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 2.

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)

Japa Containers: The Strength of Those That Left, And The Building Blocks of Those Who Stay by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 2.

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)

Cover Story by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 1.

Cover Story, 2010

New plastic bags, Newspapers

272 x 665 x 283 cm

(107.09 x 261.81 x 111.42 in)

About Black (From the Bag Wall Series) by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 1.

About Black (From the Bag Wall Series), 2006

Used plastic bags, Thread

283 x 180 x 140 cm

(111.42 x 70.87 x 55.12 in)

How to Frame and Please Six Women at Once by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 2.

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)

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 5.

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

With Responsibilities and with Shame by Orie. (Amarachi Okafor), Image 4.

With Responsibilities and with Shame, 2007

Fabric offcuts, Used post office paper boxes (cartons), Used stamps, Thread, Text

Variable dimensions

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