Ubom iba

2021

Metal, salvaged shipping pallets, used shoes, shoelaces

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Ubom iba

Ubom iba rather is composed of donated and collected used shoes that reside in and around a suspended ship rib, constructed to reference the eighteenth-century diagram of the Brookes slave ship as well as countless boats carrying migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea. This piece continues my exploration of the links between bodies and transit within global labor economies.