Born in 1987, Ibrahim Mahama is an artist and author who creates monumental installations out of materials originating from Ghana, Mahama's home. Described in The Guardian as "a junkyard utopian", he investigates the conditions of supply and demand in African markets, often making work with materials like cocoa and jute sacks. He and Daniel Eisenberg, a Chicago-based filmmaker and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, talk about Mahama’s work and the importance of showing art in the places where its materials are sourced from, as well as the artist's relationship to his home.