Congolese art collective CATPC makes its debut on the Amstel with a new exhibition: Het Land van Hagelslag. Building a new world together. On view at H’ART Museum from Friday 22 May until Sunday 8 November.
CJP/Student: €15
Uitpas: €13.50
Free for: Youth up to 17 years, Museum Pass, VriendenLoterij VIP-Kaart, I amsterdam City Card, Go City, Stadspas & ICOM.
Members of H'ART Museum always enjoy free entrance and do not need to reserve a time slot
Het Land van Hagelslag
What for many people is an everyday product has a darker side: cacao, sugar and palm oil are often produced on plantations where people and nature pay a high price.
The artists of Congolese collective CATPC make art to change that. With the proceeds they buy back exhausted plantation land to plant food forests. This strengthens food security, biodiversity and the restoration of the sacred forest.
The exhibition features 30 chocolate sculptures and a series of embroidered works. The sculptures were originally made from clay and cast in cacao, palm oil and sugar using 3D technology. Each work tells its own story about exploitation, inequality and resistance.
The embroidered works show portraits of resistance fighters and plantation workers from Congo, Haiti, Suriname, Indonesia and Ghana. They are embroidered on the burlap sacks used to transport cacao around the world. Together they form a tribute to their shared struggle against colonial exploitation.