Children of the Soil

In observance of Earth Day 2023, The Broad has commissioned musician M’Baye Kante and dancer Haniyyah Tahirah to produce Children of the Soil, an original performance for video in response to Broad collection artist El Anatsui’s Strips of the Earth’s Skin. Born in Ghana and based in Nigeria, Anatsui crafts bottle caps, reused aluminum commercial packaging, copper wire, and other materials into giant shimmering sheets of what he calls “cloths.” The aesthetic properties and the deeper meaning behind Anatsui’s work-such as consumerism, colonialism, the environment, and waste-are reflected and interpreted by Kante and Tahirah through original text, music and vocals, costume, and lush cinematography. Earth Day is observed annually on April 22 and marks the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

[@stephanoochiedella]

Beautiful! Captures the colors and sounds of Strips of the Earth's Skin.

[@benzhang1419]

This video reminds of Jibaro. Is it just coincident or that the creator actually draw some inspiration there?

[@hopsonGamadzi]

mmmmm Horror 😳😯