NON ORIENTABLE NKANSA II. 1901 – 2030 is a research project, conceptually spanning a remote past to the imminent future. Through the monumental installations and photographs, it investigates the notions of labour, collaboration and collective authorship. At the PinchukArtCenter, a massive shelf has been installed to assemble and systematically organize hundreds of shoeshiners' boxes. They are partly collected, partly constructed objects of labour and exploitation that belongs to the mundane urban landscape of Accra and other places in Ghana. Made out of a variety of materials found at decaying industrial sites such as the railway and factories, they embody personal stories and individual struggles but also traces of the colonial legacy. As such they are a metaphor for looking at the current crisis both historically and globally, but also at the marginal spaces that negotiate their own significance within the larger context.