Otobong Nkanga

**Otobong Nkanga** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1974) ƙwararriyar mai zane ce, mai yin zane-zane da kuma mai wasan kwaikwayo, wacce take zaune a Antwerp, Belgium . A shekara ta 2015, ta lashe kyautar Yanghyun .  

A cikin aikinta, ta binciko sauye-sauyen zamantakewa da na yanayin muhalli na muhallinta, ta lura da sarkakiyar da ke tattare da su, kuma ta fahimci yadda albarkatu kamar ƙasa da ƙasa, da kuma ƙimomin da za su iya kasancewa, ke ƙarƙashin nazarin yanki da al'adu. An nuna ayyukanta a cibiyoyi da yawa, ciki har da Tate Modern KW Institute (Berlin), Stedelijk Museum da kuma biennale of Sharjah .  Ta kuma halarci Biennale na 20 na Sydney . 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Otobong Nkanga a Kano, Najeriya, a shekarar 1974 kuma ta shafe mafi yawan lokacin yarinta a Legas . Sha'awarta ga fasaha da muhalli ta samo asali ne a lokacin yarinta lokacin da take tattara ma'adanai da zane-zane da mica a kan titunan Legas .  Mahaifiyarta malamar fasaha ce. Mahaifinta ya mutu tana da shekaru bakwai. Mahaifiyarta sai ta kula da Nkanga da 'yan uwanta uku.  A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, iyalinta suka ƙaura zuwa Paris, Faransa, saboda aikin mahaifiyarta.  Nkanga ta yi karatun fasaha a Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo da ke Ile-Ife kuma ta ci gaba da karatunta a Ecole des Beaux-Arts da ke Paris.  Mahaifiyarta ta mutu a hatsarin mota a daidai lokacin da ta fara karatun jami'a.  Daga nan ta ci gaba da samun digiri na biyu a fannin Fasaha a Dasarts, Amsterdam, da ke Netherlands a shekarar 2008.  A halin yanzu tana zaune kuma tana aiki a Antwerp, Belgium. 

## Aiki da aiki

### Jigogi da kayan aiki
A cikin aikinta, Nkanga ta binciki jigogi na mulkin mallaka na neocolonialism, tashin hankalin muhalli, da kuma kare muhalli. Misali, a cikin The Weight of Scars ta nuna tabon haƙo ma'adinai. [1] Haka kuma, baje kolin bincike na farko na Nkanga a Amurka, To Ding a Hole That Rushewa Again, ya aika da saƙon gargaɗi game da duniya tana da yunwar kayan duniya da ba za a iya ƙoshi ba kuma tana yin duk abin da za ta samu. [2] A cikin Pursuit of Bling, an isar da wannan saƙon ta hanyar jawo hankali ga neman albarkatun ƙasa da sha'awar duniya na samun ma'adanai da ƙarfe masu wuya. [3] Ta waɗannan hanyoyin, akwai takamaiman wurin aiki ga aikinta, kamar yadda ta ce: "Aikina yana da alaƙa da wuraren da na zauna. Abin da ke faruwa a ɗayan yana shafar wani. Wannan gaskiya ne ga yanayi ma." [4]

Nkanga tana amfani da nau'ikan kafofin watsa labarai da yawa kamar zane-zane, hotuna, zane, yadi, bidiyo, da sassaka, duk da haka an fi saninta da kayan aikinta.  Kamar yadda marubuciya kuma mai sukar fasaha Devon Van Houten Maldonado ta lura: "Ɗaya daga cikin ginshiƙan aikinta ya ƙunshi raba albarkatu daga ƙasa zuwa tarin abubuwa, sassaka, da alamomi - mafi yawansu sun fi mayar da hankali kan kayan da aka yi amfani da su."  Wasu muhimman abubuwan da aka samu a cikin fasaharta sun haɗa da "ra'ayin abin duniya," wanda shine ra'ayin cewa abubuwa za su iya ji, tunani, da tunawa; tana amfani da wannan ra'ayin don isar da abubuwan da suka faru na kayan halitta a cikin kayan aikinta.  Raguwa ta jiki - kamar hannaye da ƙafafu marasa jiki - wani abu ne da ke bayyana a cikin ayyukanta kuma yana nuna rashin fahimtar ainihin cikakken abu.  Ta amfani da abubuwan da aka samo daga tarin al'adu kamar Gidan Tarihi na Weltkulturen da ke Frankfurt am Main, Nkanga ta bincika, a cewar mai zane, mai kula da kuma marubuciya Yvette Mutumba, "dangantaka tsakanin yanayin kayayyakin tarihi na yanzu a cikin tarin Afirka na gidan tarihi da kuma yanayin al'adunsu na asali." 

## Manazarta