Agbogbloshie

At Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, discarded technology has become the ground of everyday life. Broken machines and tangled cables form a landscape in which objects retain value beyond their original use. The remains of consumption become a means of survival for the people who work among them.

Fire, smoke, and human bodies occupy the same space. Labour and moments of rest unfold within a landscape shaped by accumulated waste. The repeated gestures of carrying, sorting, and dismantling bring the body into direct contact with the material consequences of consumption.

Recovered materials return to circulation, while the effects of their recovery remain with the place and its people. The work explores the uneasy relationship between waste and livelihood, where the value that remains in objects is inseparable from the vulnerability of those who recover it.