Context (Field collection)
Commissioned from the artist as part of the project Taking Care: Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care (1 October 2019- October 2023) which places ethnographic and world cultures museums at the centre of the search for possible strategies to address these issues. Alarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness about the future of the planet. While planetary in cause and scale, the negative effects of the climate crisis are unequally distributed, affecting most intensely some whose positions are already extremely fragile, including Indigenous and formerly colonized peoples and contributing to rising global insecurity and inequality. The major environmental risks are connected with other issues, including political instability, failures or alleged failures of democratic government, and the rise of populism, racism and associated expressions of intolerance.

Our claim is that world culture museums should no longer be conceived primarily as repositories of heritage to be preserved. They are places of encounter and practice, of social experimentations and innovation, of knowledges and skills, where diverse ways of knowing and being in and with the world, and narratives of diversity can be (re)discovered, co-created and publicly shared. In our time, of crisis and political polarisation, such caring and careful spaces are needed more than ever.
Event Date 15/5/2023
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Produced in Cambridge during a 4-week residency at MAA
Event Date 15/5/2023
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact II. Second image in a triptych painted in acrylics by Enotie Ogbobor (2023) depicting the evolution of the environment and man's relationship with it, from adaptation to dominance and ending in destruction.
The image shows a forest scene with two monkeys, crocodiles, three ibis on a branch, butterflies, a lion, an elephant, a fish and a leopard. A mythological leopard with bright spots runs between the first and second image and represents the extinction of the species in the Benin region
Event Date 15/5/2023
Author: rachel hand