New York based art historian Dana Liljegren has written a new essay for the Archive of Destruction.
The récupération movement, established in Dakar, Senegal in the 1990s is characterised as a process of recovery, reclamation and recycling involving man-made objects and natural materials. Liljegren discusses the work of three artists who use discarded objects to think through the subject of destruction and position it as a transformative act.
Image: Ndary Lô, Délit de surcharge, 2004. Installed in the grounds of the French Cultural Centre, Dakar, Senegal. Photo: © Susan Kart