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垃圾就是一堆被错放的宝物。在艺术家手中，垃圾就是一件件有血有肉的艺术品。 而由垃圾构成的艺术品，也在警示着人们：保护环境，保护自然！ 本文选自《国家地理》六月版 Transforming Trash into Protest Art 在刚果民主共和国，垃圾堆到处都是。这触目惊心的景象让艺术家们有了一个想法。 It started as a countercultural art movement in 2001. After years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa— following teachers’ advice on creating work with “proper” materials, such as resin and plaster of Paris—some students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to do something different. They created art with what was in their immediate environment, including tires, exhaust pipes, foam, plastic bottles, antennas, tins that had held milk or paint, feathers, CDs, rubber slippers, and other discarded items. This work, the artists believed, felt familiar to a Congolese audience, and spoke to a particularly egregious aspect of Congolese life: waste. Waste generated locally by citizens. Waste foisted on the country by hyper-consumerist nations. Waste triggered by the endless extraction of resources from the DRC’s earth, or the rapacious collection of the same above land. In Kinshasa, gutters are brimming with nonrecyclable plastic bottles. Markets are awash with second- and third-hand goods, castoffs from high-income countries and, at a quickening pace, China. In areas where international companies mine for cobalt—a precious component of smartphone batteries—frequent discharges contaminate river systems and surrounding life. By repurposing waste to create sculpture and performance art, the artists wanted to dial up the public’s acuity toward an ongoing emergency. In 2015 they laid the groundwork for a collective to institutionalize the art: Ndaku Ya Life Is Beautiful, led by Eddy Ekete. A Kinshasa-born artist and social activist, Ekete also founded the Kin Act festival, an annual showcase for the provocative creations. Increasingly, for the artists, the waste provides an opening to comment on fraught sociopolitical issues. Robot Annonce, a wearable sculpture by Jared Kalenga, is made of broken radio parts. It seeks to raise awareness about the ever-spreading reach of fake news. Femme Électrique, Falonne Mambu’s creation made of electric wires, is double-edged. It speaks to the paucity of electric power service in the DRC and, simultaneously, what goes on in the dark: sexual assaults, kidnappings. Mambu’s inspiration for the work was drawn from periods in her life when she was homeless. These socially conscious creators who turn refuse into protest art “are out here pushing limits,” says Yvon Edoumou, founder of Kinshasa’s Galerie Malabo. “We don’t see a lot of that.” —AYO D EJ I ROTINWA 废旧轮胎到处丢，我把你利用起来。
人字拖太多，满地都是。没事，艺术家把你收拾起来！
破铜烂铁不要乱扔，艺术家会让其立体起来。
塑料绳，牙膏，羽毛都是极好的艺术品原料。
随地的烟头，也是艺术品。
这些艺术品让你看到了人类制造了多少垃圾！ 更让你看到了自己浪费了多少资源！ |
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