Babi

Name: Babi
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Joshua Omoijiade

Painting of a figure with a mandrill's face and a flaring white mane, one hand on its chest, cradling a human skull against its body, in deep red and brown on a dark ground.

$55.00

Babi is the last of Joshua Omoijiade's horseman collection, “the bringers of death in a world of my fashioning”. He holds a skull close and meets our eyes. This dark, mythic artwork is named for the baboon god who judged the dead in ancient Egypt.

Babi is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

Joshua Omoijiade calls Babi the last in his horseman collection: “the bringers of death in a world of my fashioning.” The name reaches back to ancient Egypt, where Babi, bull of the baboons, judged the dead. Joshua paints his own version: a primate’s face ridged in blue and red, a mane of white hair flaring like smoke. He has one hand flat on his chest, a human skull held close. The eyes are level, steady on yours, as though he is weighing you too.

The culture · Ancient Egypt. In ancient Egyptian belief, Babi, bull of the baboons, judged the dead by a lake of fire. Joshua Omoijiade makes him a horseman of death in a world of his own.

Motifs in this work

The baboon face: Babi, bull of the baboons

The skull held close: the souls in his keeping

Level eyes: the weighing of the heart against Maat

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 20 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Year: 2021
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 12 in	6½ × 9½ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Joshua Omoijiade

Edo / Benin · Nigeria · 3 works on Raknida

Joshua Omoijiade, who works as Josheromon, is a Nigerian painter, concept artist, writer and architect whose work spans nearly two decades and several mediums. Self-taught in art after formal training in architecture and design, he paints in a way he calls "tradigital". He uses painterly digital work to convey complex, melancholic emotions and characters. His themes include liminality, sadness, rage and gluttony, the dark undertones of the mind that rarely get the room to be seen. He has shown in digital exhibitions in several countries and also publishes fiction and non-fiction.

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