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Abu Bakarr Mansaray

is an artist based in Sierra Leone. Working with diagrammatic machine drawings, his practice addresses violence, spirituality, and postcolonial memory through a technological lens. His work has been shown at the Venice and Gwangju Biennales and is held in the collections of MoMA, MFA Houston, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

EBOTA VIRUS (2025)

Abu Bakarr Mansaray constructs impossible machines from the wreckage of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Working without formal training, he drafts intricate schematics of weaponised fantasies that fuse art, science, and survival. His large-scale drawings, rendered with obsessive precision, depict hybrid contraptions wired with ducts, claws, and explosive valves. Each sheet functions as both blueprint and exorcism, turning trauma into mechanical delirium. The annotations, dense with pseudo-technical language, evoke manuals for devices that could never work yet seem alarmingly plausible. Mansaray’s “machines” channel the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity: innovation born from catastrophe, technology as both curse and refuge. By exaggerating the aesthetics of engineering and militarism to absurd excess, he exposes the moral corrosion at their core. His drawings are acts of resistance, protective spells against oblivion that transform the ruins of war into diagrams of persistence and imagination.

Ebota Virus (2025), drawing.

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