Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise

6 Feb-29 May 2016

Overview

The Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise is an association based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. It brings together plantation workers who engage in art making at settlements of the Institute for Human Activities in the country’s rainforest. This organisation was established by the Dutch artist Renzo Martens for the purpose of effecting social change. This exhibition features sculptures produced by the plantation workers in workshops held at the Institute for Human Activities. The pieces are portraits or representations of art-market archetypes such as the collector. Each one is moulded from clay and then translated into chocolate through multiple technologies, including 3D scanning and printing.