Pacific Breeze II

About the fan

The fans dispatched to Omom in Kenya never arrived. Unable to make a fan and send it to London for this exhibition, Omom gave a set of instructions to Ana Teles, who has helped to organise Pacific Breeze II, for her to use to create his fan.

The instructions consisted of a list of materials combined with a series of actions. These were, for example, the make use of a warm coloured newspaper, wire, and a paper punch hole; and to make holes all over the fan, with 1mm distance from each other. Teles responded by requesting more detailed instructions, or in some cases, finding the impossibility of certain tasks, by proposing alternatives. 

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Ken Omom (b. 1985) lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. He studied Fine Art at University of Worcester and completed an MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. 

Omom's work deals with found objects to which he adds drawing elements to emphasise the relationship between space and how the audience interprets these hybrid objects. By adding both geometrical and organic shapes, the drawings become objects and the objects drawings, blurring the boundaries between these and sculpture.