Self-made playground in Addis Ababa: the house of the Lost Children

More photos of the project Pictures made by the orphanage’s children Contex In the gubernamental orphanage of Kibebe Tsehay, in Sidist Kilo, live children from 0 to 8 years old. There, these children study, sleep, eat, tidy up and play together. The place has a large outdoor space with hardly any trees and wherein at […]

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Self-made playground in Maputo

More pictures Context Mafalala is one of the most populars neighborhoods of Maputo, Moçambique. Celebrities as the footbal player Eusebio (a.k.a. the Black Panter), Samora Machel (first president of the independent Moçambique) or the poes Noémia de Sousa and José Craveirinha grew up in this neighborhood. During the foundation of Maputo (eighteenth century) native Mozambicans […]

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“RELAT DE BELLES COSES FALSES” (A tale of nice fake things)

After its display in  Lo Pati Centre in Amposta “Relat de Belles Coses Falses” was re-opened in Arts Santa Monica Barcelona from 15th October 2014 to 25th January 2015. Participants of the exhibition: Verdolatría: Carlos Aires, Josep Berga i Boix, Joaquim Mir, Mariona Moncunill and Rasmus Nilausen. Appalling Regions: Javier Basiana, Jaume Orpinell, Basurama, Julia Montilla, […]

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It’s All Yours

¡Eres lo que tiras!
Y la basura que dejas atrás dice más sobre ti de lo que te atreves a admitir. Lo oculto, lo invisible, lo oscuro conforma los estratos más profundos de nuestra memoria.

En junio 2014 fuimos invitados a hacer una instalación en el Museo Victoria & Albert.
Queríamos transformar desechos en “souvenirs”, no sólo los residuos producidos y almacenados por el museo, sino aquellos que los visitantes traen en sus bolsillos.

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It’s All Yours

You are what you throw away!
And the leftovers we leave behind tell more stories about us than any other thing.
They are the strata of our memory.

In June 2014 we were invited to do an installation at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
We wanted to transform trash into souvenirs, not only the trash produced and stored by the museum but also the one that the visitors bring in their pockets.

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Inhabiting Plastic Oceans.

Inhabiting Plastic Oceans is an art installation designed and built by Basurama for the World Design Capital in Company Gardens, Cape Town during the month of November 2014.

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Luxo é Lixo (Luxury is Trash)

Luxury is Trash. Art installation of urban scale tributed to the visual poem ‘Lixo é luxo’ of Augusto de Campos. Artistic intervention from plastic bags.

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BOCHUM FACTORY of LEISURE and CARE (BFPfW): How to become a Granny?

Participation in project “This is not Detroit”, by Schauspielhaus Bochum and Urbane Kunst Ruhr. Bochum, Germany 12th -21st June, 2014. The project aims to reflect on the future of the industry, of the labor and of European cities. Artists from Poland, England and Spain (the countries where Opel factories are running) have been invited to propose […]

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