Huh!

Name: Huh!
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Adeyemo Ekundayo

Pencil-sketched portrait of a young man with a high-top haircut, chin raised and eyes glancing to the side, a vertical band of ochre light across his face, on a grey background.

$250.00 – $600.00

A young man caught mid-reaction, chin up and eyes sliding sideways: Adeyemo Ekundayo's pencil portrait, lit by a single band of ochre light.

Huh! is a Collector Edition: 10 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Collector Edition comes with its story and its certificate.

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Cultural
Passport

Huh!
by Adeyemo Ekundayo
Yoruba · Yr. 2022 · Ed. of 10
Coll. Ed.+ COA
Cultural Passport
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.
Digital Certificate of Authenticity
Issued digitally with your Collector Edition.

Huh! is the sound a face makes before the words come. Adeyemo Ekundayo catches a young man at exactly that moment: chin lifted, high-top sharp against the grey. His eyes slide sideways at something, or someone, just out of the frame. Nobody has to tell you what was said. The look already answers it.

Ekundayo usually works as a fashion illustrator, leaving the figure in fine pencil and painting the clothes in full colour. Here he turns that habit on the face itself. The drawing stays a sketch, hatched and loose, and the only paint is one upright band of ochre light falling across the eyes and cheek. It falls the way a beam from a doorway catches someone mid-reaction. Signed and dated '22, it is the smallest drama in his set and the most familiar.

Motifs in this work

The side-eye: a whole conversation in one glance

The ochre band of light: the only paint, laid across the eyes

Loose pencil hatching: the sketch he leaves visible

Edition: Edition of 10 in each size · 30 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, its Cultural Passport and a digital Certificate of Authenticity.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	16 × 20 in	14 × 17½ in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 30 in	22 × 27½ in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 40 in	30 × 37½ in	$600	+$249	10

The artist

Adeyemo Ekundayo

Yoruba · Lagos, Nigeria · 5 works on Raknida

Adeyemo Ekundayo is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria, whose practice explores the metaphysical, political structures and fashion. Working in acrylic, oil, charcoal and digital media, he uses an expressive visual language, rooted in expressionism, of bold gestures, layered imagery and symbolism. Fashion is his way into identity and society; spirituality is his frame for what lies beyond ordinary perception. At the core of his practice is the belief that there is more to life than what we see. On Raknida, his figures are left in pencil while the clothes are painted in full.

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