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This 100,000-Piece LEGO City Belongs In a Museum
This 100,000-Piece LEGO City Belongs In a Museum
Ekow Nimako
Ekow Nimako
Ekow Nimako s 2019 work “Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE” is the Toronto-based artist s most ambitious cityscape to date. Constructed from 100,000 sleek black LEGO pieces, the Afrofuturistic metropolis reimagines the capital city of the ancient Ghanaian empire.
Building on historical scholarship, cultural symbolism, and a long-standing love for LEGO, Nimako s 30-square-foot sculpture catapults the medieval city into the year 3020. Here, he imagines an “uncooped narrative of Black civilizations.” In his artist statement, Nimako explains that his work “seeks to reclaim histories, reconcile ancestral traumas and imagine liberated futures for all African peoples.”