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Prosper Aluu, What we carry to learn #1, 2025

Prosper Aluu Nigeria, b. 1999

What we carry to learn #1, 2025
Technique mixte sur toile
Mixed medias on canvas
89.4 x 60.5 cm
35 1/4 x 23 7/8 in
©Prosper Aluu
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'What We Carry to Learn' Serie The 'What We Carry to Learn' Series is about carrying, negotiating, and translating knowledge across space, class, language, and environment. The figures are not...
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"What We Carry to Learn" Serie

The "What We Carry to Learn" Series is about carrying, negotiating, and translating knowledge across space, class, language, and environment. The figures are not simply “students”; they are custodians of unstable knowledge systems.

This series explores education as a lived, embodied process shaped by movement, access, and improvisation. The figures portrayed carry books close to their bodies, not as symbols of certainty, but as fragile accumulations of knowledge gathered across formal and informal systems of learning.

Through layered newspapers, photographic fragments, and pigment, the clothing becomes an archive, mapping how education is absorbed through classrooms, streets, media, language, and daily responsibility. Learning here is not linear or complete; it is pieced together through effort, proximity, and persistence.

Set within environments drawn from Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Côte d’Ivoire, the works reflect shared conditions of mobility and negotiation across West Africa. Education is presented not as arrival or escape, but as something continually carried shaped by circumstance, sustained by endurance, and held close in the face of uncertainty.

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Série "What We Carry to Learn"

La série "What We Carry to Learn" traite du transport, de la négociation et de la traduction des connaissances à travers l'espace, les classes sociales, les langues et les environnements. Les personnages ne sont pas simplement des « étudiants » ; ils sont les gardiens de systèmes de connaissances instables.

Cette série explore l'éducation comme un processus vécu et incarné, façonné par le mouvement, l'accès et l'improvisation. Les personnages représentés portent des livres près de leur corps, non pas comme des symboles de certitude, mais comme des accumulations fragiles de connaissances acquises à travers des systèmes d'apprentissage formels et informels.

Grâce à des couches de journaux, des fragments photographiques et des pigments, les vêtements deviennent des archives qui retracent la manière dont l'éducation est absorbée à travers les salles de classe, les rues, les médias, la langue et les responsabilités quotidiennes. Ici, l'apprentissage n'est ni linéaire ni complet ; il se construit à travers l'effort, la proximité et la persévérance.

Situées dans des environnements inspirés du Nigeria, du Bénin et de la Côte d'Ivoire, les œuvres reflètent les conditions communes de mobilité et de négociation à travers l'Afrique de l'Ouest. L'éducation n'est pas présentée comme une arrivée ou une échappatoire, mais comme quelque chose qui se construit continuellement, façonné par les circonstances, soutenu par l'endurance et gardé précieusement face à l'incertitude.
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