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    Gor Soudan

     

    Gor Soudan is a conceptual artist living and working in Kisumu and Nairobi. Often subtly engaged with contemporary political and social issues and embedded in urban culture, Gor's artistic practice is an organic process through which everyday material is transformed into powerful work.  He has worked with pages of the Kenyan constitution, carton, plastic, shopping bags and ‘protest wire’ - a tangled black mass of wire he salvaged from car tyres burnt during civil unrests in Nairobi brought about by political tension.

     

    His practice and the works he produces provide acute, often satirical observations and comment on the rapid socio-political transformation Africa, and Kenya in particular, is undergoing. His latest project, Bubbles & Shells applies linear installation using protest wire, natural materials and drawings to explore an ontological history of enclosed spaces, utopian and practical pods and domes, real and fantastical atmospheres or ecosystems observed during his travels to Japan and West Africa. 

     

    http://www.gorsoudan.daportfolio.com

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    Gor Soudan
    Untitled III, Join the dots
    Ink on watercolour paper
    110cm x 75cm
    2015
    Gor Soudan
    Untitled XVII, More deader and outer things between earth and heaven
    2015
    Gor Soudan
    Bubbles & Shells IV
    Wire
    35x35 cm
    Executed in 2014
    Gor Soudan
    Installation
    Albert Samreth & Gor Soudan, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Japan
    2014
    Gor Soudan
    Installation
    Albert Samreth & Gor Soudan, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Japan
    2014
    Gor Soudan
    Eatings I
    Protest wire
    100x60x22cm
    2013
    Gor Soudan
    Eatings II
    Protest wire
    100x60x22cm
    2013
    Gor Soudan
    Resurrection: The Fire Next Time
    Untitled IX
    Protest Wire
    60x40x8cm
    2013
    Gor Soudan
    Resurrection: The Fire Next Time
    Untitled XII
    Protest wire and Burmese teak
    Overall installation: 300x300cm
    2013
    Gor Soudan
    Angry birds
    Multi media installation and animation
    Dimensions variable
    Executed in 2012
    Gor Soudan
    Crow series
    Mixed media collage on board
    Executed in 2011
    Gor Soudan
    Shock of being seen
    Acrylic on carton
    Painted in 2011
    Gor Soudan
    Thinking man
    Acrylic on carton
    Painted in 2011