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Ryan Burns
Mountain Gorilla and Wii
$35

Mountain Gorilla and Wii is a print made of a detail from a installation entitled Profane Relics:an Ossuary of the Congo Mineral Wars, that examines the price paid for high-tech gadgetry.
In the installation: An immense crate has been prized open to reveal an archaeological transect: a ten-foot square block of red soil, whose strata have been treated to reveal objects contained in the matrix. These objects tell the story of the past twenty years of war and mineral exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The artifacts and waste of cultural disarticulation and total war lie with the crude hand-tools of small pit mining; traces of the bushmeat trade jumbled together with discarded high-tech ephemera, smartphones and laptops and game consoles, whose capacitors are assembled of Congolese conflict minerals.

3-color silkscreen print
14"x20"
Acid-free recycled paper
Signed/Numbered Edition of 50