Worldwide Benin


Vynil wall piece and single channel video (2007)

A roll call of over 500 museums and collectors – from the British Museum to André Breton – holding the famous Benin artifcats taken by the British in 1897 during the punitive expedition in Benin City and now dispersed all over the world in major museums.  A ‘bronze’ vynil represents a map of the world drawn by connecting these collections with each other.

© Uriel Orlow 2012