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Prosper Aluu, Collective Literacy, 2025

Prosper Aluu Nigeria, b. 1999

Collective Literacy, 2025
Technique mixte sur toile
Mixed medias on canvas
91.4 x 109.2 cm
36 x 43 in
©Prosper Aluu
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This work examines learning as a collective process rather than an individual achievement. A group of figures gathers around a single book, not to consume knowledge privately, but to encounter...
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This work examines learning as a collective process rather than an individual achievement. A group of figures gathers around a single book, not to consume knowledge privately, but to encounter it together. The text, "Future Legends", functions as a speculative object, less a source of fixed answers than a shared site of aspiration, possibility, and becoming.

Through Abfillage, newspapers, pigment, and painterly interruption are layered onto the figures’ bodies, suggesting how knowledge is accumulated informally through daily exposure to information, headlines, and lived experience. Education here is worn, embodied, and incomplete. The disruption of legibility mirrors the fractured ways learning occurs outside formal institutions.

The absence of a teacher or hierarchy reframes literacy as a communal act, where authority is distributed and understanding emerges through proximity and shared attention. The work proposes knowledge as something negotiated together, held in common, passed on, and shaped collectively toward the future.

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Cette œuvre explore l’apprentissage comme un processus collectif plutôt que comme une réussite individuelle. Un groupe de figures se rassemble autour d’un même livre, non pour consommer le savoir de manière privée, mais pour le rencontrer ensemble. Le texte "Future Legends" fonctionne comme un objet spéculatif : moins une source de réponses fixes qu’un espace partagé d’aspiration, de possibilité et de devenir.

À travers la technique de l’Abfillage, journaux, pigments et interruptions picturales se superposent sur les corps, suggérant que le savoir s’accumule de manière informelle par l’exposition quotidienne à l’information, aux titres de presse et à l’expérience vécue. L’éducation est ici portée, incarnée et incomplète. Les perturbations de lisibilité reflètent la manière fragmentée dont l’apprentissage se construit en dehors des institutions formelles.

L’absence d’enseignant ou de hiérarchie redéfinit la lecture comme un acte commun, où l’autorité est distribuée et où la compréhension émerge de la proximité et de l’attention partagée. Le savoir devient négociation collective, transmis et façonné ensemble vers l’avenir.
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