Jozi, The city that never sleeps, 2023
Dario Manjate uses portraits of African women to create collages that offer commentary on the link between consumerist culture and environmental degradation. Manjate considers how ecological harm emerges as a result of consumerism which is a by-product of capitalist societies characterised by greed and a lethal affinity to possess material goods. Manjate’s ractice of collage-making is an act of societal deconstruction by (re)constructing identities of social desire and distorting current notions of abundance.