Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders
March 29, 2012
Washington-based Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed works on miniature sculptures based on drawings made for him by the Umbararu nomads.
A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict.
In an audio montage of memories from refugees, the sounds of gunfire and explosions mix with crying babies. Narrator Michelle Orecchio describes how to reverse war's grip on so much of humanity.
"All it takes is wisdom and I am absolutely sure we can get it back into the box and bind the chains and lock the locks," she said.
The audio art is one of many creations by Sudanese artist Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed. The Washington-based activist works across artistic genres, from photography to installations and conceptual events to show the sameness of people, while also exposing injustices.
His own home region in the south of Sudan is experiencing conflict and humanitarian crisis amid the messy separation between Sudan and the world's newest country South Sudan.
On the wall of his room in a suburb of Washington, he describes pictures of a community event he regularly leads called "Water and Fire" where a fire is lit and then doused.
"The fire that is when I burned the partition and the partition represents a border, and by burning it I have hope that people and countries, these will be without borders," Mohamed said.
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