Dinner Party

Name: Dinner Party
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Joshua Omoijiade

Painting of figures at a brown table on turquoise: a man with an afro in black, one hand dark and one pale, a bald man in dark glasses holding a red heart, a grinning skeleton in a blue hoodie holding a skull, a man in a neon green hoodie turning away.

$55.00

Joshua Omoijiade sets a sombre scene in bright, happy colours: amid all the brightness and fads of life, death is always staring you in the face. A grinning skeleton, a jewel-like heart and a guest walking away share a turquoise table. A memento mori artwork for a dining room, lounge or gallery wall.

Dinner Party 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.

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Joshua Omoijiade calls it “a snapshot of a life”: a sombre scene in bright, happy colours. Amid all the brightness and fads of life, the painting says, death is always staring you in the face. Look closer and things get weirder. A man with an afro talks with one black hand and one pale, skeletal one; a bald guest in dark glasses holds a jewel-like heart; a grinning skeleton cradles a laughing skull. And a man in neon green walks away. Why? It is a reminder of how fleeting pleasure is, and how close mortality sits. Dinner Party raises more questions than it answers, and that is its fascination.

The culture · Remembrance, Africa. Across many African cultures, the first pour of a drink goes to the ancestors, keeping the departed at the table: named, invited to every gathering, never quite gone.

Motifs in this work

A jewel-like heart in a blind guest's hand: pleasure held but unseen

One black hand, one skeletal: life and death in the same body

A man in neon green walking away: the question the painting leaves you with

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: 2022
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	12 × 8 in	9½ × 6½ 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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