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Pimba AGIDA MADAFO VII

Remy Jungerman
Pimba AGIDA MADAFO VII, 2021
Cotton textile, kaolin (pimba) on wood panel (plywood)
Work: 82 x 82 cm

Through geometric forms embodied in horizontal lines and vertical stripes, Remy Jungerman’s installations, sculptures and collages bring together modernist traditions in conversation with Surinamese Maroon culture. Using a seamless language of abstraction, Jungerman challenges notions of modernisms etched in exclusionary narratives. Pimba AGIDA MADAFO V is inspired by the essence of the Agida, a long single-headed cylindrical drum from Suriname. The drum produces low toned sounds and is played to honour the earth. While “pimba” refers to the kaolin clay mineral, used in Winti religious tradition as a purification mineral. While the works are suggestive of paintings, they are assemblages on which pimba is layered onto the surface, resulting in intricately textured compositions of straight and curved lines — travelling lines, as if to measure something...distance, place, dislocation, relocation.