Katja Aufleger: Orange Money

Wednesday April 12th, 2023 from 7PM to 11PM

A one-night event organised following a six-weeks residency of the artist Katja Aufleger

One night only - Special Ndogu

Following a 6-weeks residency, Selebe Yoon presents Orange Money by artist Katja Aufleger (b. 1983, Oldenburg, Germany) for one night only. This project consists of a new film, an ephemeral installation and small bronze sculptures. Through her work, the artist explores power relations, tension dynamics, and the latent possibility of destruction and creation. In her videos, the artist documents actions that are initially harmless and which, through repetition, are transformed into an abstraction and bring out the humorous, poetic quality and double meaning of the gesture.

In the first video, the artist films orange vendors in the streets of Dakar meticulously peeling the fruit. The multiple sequences focus on this gesture: a tension appears between the roundness of the orange, the delicacy of its skin and the sharp steel of the knife.

The spherical sculptures made of bronze were created from oranges bought in the street. Like small planets, each one reveals a particular cutout on its surface. 1% of the price of each sculpture sold will be sent via Orange Money (pioneer of the mobile payment system established in several countries in Africa) to each seller filmed, echoing the 1% retained by the French company. An ephemeral installation with the remnants of the orange peels become a musical composition on the wall.

A second video, started during a residency in Casamance in 2022 is also displayed along the project Orange Money. Several successive sequences present a game of billiards: here too, it is the positioning of the hands against the stick, the collision with the billiard balls, the acceleration between certain sequences that give this game a quasi-absurd and interminable character.