This gallery features the work of the three artists personally invited to participate in the Art of Energy Exhibition in February of 2021: Ed Kashi, Brook Peterson and Owen Logan. Our featured artists also gave interviews about their work. Find them on Youtube by following these links: Brook Peterson, Ed Kashi, and Owen Logan.
Curse of the Black Gold: Oil in the Niger Delta
With the Mobil Exxon Gas Plant across the water, fishermen arrive to drop their catches of bonga fish, gold fish, silver fish and crayfish. Due to pollution caused by the oil companies, the catches have decreased in quality and quantity. This has caused major problems of unemployment for the local young men. The local women haggle over the size and price of their purchases along the waterside.This scene is in the fishing village of Finima, which is a newly relocated community caused by the rapid growth of the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas plant on Bonny Island.None of the locals are given work within any of the gas and oil facilities on Bonny Island, which has caused widespread resentment and frustration.
