Based in Dakar, Senegal, Raw Material Company is an independent, collaborative centre that aims to foster critical thinking through artistic practice. The project was founded in 2008 at the initiative of curator Koyo Kouoh, with a socially committed, pan-African, translocal vision and a programme that revolves around the research, promotion and dissemination of contemporary culture in and from Africa.

Terike Haapoja is a Finnish artist and adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and NYU. She has spent years deconstructing the anthropocentrism of our worldview, exploring the political and existential boundaries of our broken social model.