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Artist Mark Boulos

Born 1975 in Boston, USA. Lives and works in London, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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    All That is Solid Melts into Air, 2008
    Funded by Arts Council England, London
    with the support of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network

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Artist Mark Boulos works with documentary film to investigate the relationship between ideas, ideology and materiality. In this two channel video installation, the corporate colonisation of Nigerian oil resources frames a clash of cultures and beliefs. Two factions indirectly battle over the control of petroleum. In Chicago, traders speculate on futures, representing a powerful financial and legal abstraction from material commodities. In the Nigerian delta, guerrillas wage war against the corporations that mine and exploit their land. The film focuses on the Ijaw people and the war god Egbisu, who inspires their struggle against foreign companies and their secessionist movement for independence, protecting them from bullets and machetes with charms made of leaves. Through this poetic exploration, contrasted by the religious beliefs of the guerrillas, Boulos investigates the fetishism of the city bankers and reveals the abstract and metaphysical nature of their beliefs.

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Mark Boulos

The Word was God, 2006
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