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49 results for “Iman Hassan”
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Omotayo Tajudeen lights his sitter from behind until the gold seems to come from the figure itself. The crown is beaded, the robe sweeps ou…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
The power here is in the angle: she is turned away from us, looking forward. Then you find the map of Africa inked on her neck, and the por…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Emmanuel takes the thing a woman is taught to cover and paints it as weather: vitiligo shaped like clouds at first light. It is the gentles…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
About twenty insects, each on its own thread, lift a rhinoceros that seems entirely at peace with the arrangement. Anth Ezeokoye's pen draw…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
In the rest of Made in Lagos a yellow sun shines over the scene. Above the Central Mosque, Anth Ezeokoye turns it into a crescent moon. It …
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Janus 2 moves in close: two heavy-browed profiles fill the square, a hatched teardrop beneath each eye, a black diamond hanging where they …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Two faces in profile, back to back, and a flower opening exactly between them. Ibrahim gives the Roman god of doorways a playing-card symme…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Everything here pulls toward the pale circle at the centre, and one thin white line cuts straight through it. That line, Aiyedogbon says, i…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Look at her ears: two steel hex nuts where gold should be. Yemisi wears a crown of beaded tendrils and two sharpened red combs. KeO makes h…
