KK Obi

Sep 13, 2023 | frieze.com | KK Obi |Jebi Labembika

Like many men their age, two friends find themselves exposed to the arrival of second-hand clothes from container ships that dump excess goods and waste from the West. The garments they rescue will go to the market on their backs, on bicycles, on canoes; if they aren’t used, they will go back to the dump, to the beach. From the shores of Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria and other parts of West Africa, these men wear the clothes they carry to the market: they become like stores.