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77 results for “Living Room”
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The rare Ai_mayor picture with no face in it, only the surfaces he usually builds faces from. At its centre a round window splits between l…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Àríké carries the name her family chose: meant to be spoiled on sight. Funmilayo Tejumola paints her as a young woman preparing for marriag…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Two young men lean their heads together until they almost touch. Divine Momoh marks each face differently, a zigzag and spiral on one, a lo…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Deep blue-black skin, a gold halo, heavy pearls at the throat, arms folded close. Dayo turns the figure away from us and lowers the eyes, a…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Awẹlẹwà, the slender, beautiful one, carries what Funmilayo Tejumola calls the hope of an African renaissance. Under a gold-beaded fringe h…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Egyptian art usually kept its kings remote. Sandro Perovic gives his pharaoh a family and lets them touch. A hand rests on a shoulder, a ba…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
The prayer builds line by line to a single word, Life, lettered larger than everything above it. Grace asks for a life measured by what it …
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LTD. 15/15Curator's Note
Yeko calls it a spiritual journey of self discovery and growth. Her tall, unhurried woman walks through water drawn as a field of circles. …
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LTD. 15/15Curator's Note
Look twice: what reads as a single heart is two, conjoined, cut from brilliant crystal shards. Anth Ezeokoye makes the join almost invisibl…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Lagos is a city held together by its crossings, and Anth Ezeokoye gives one of its newest landmarks the same affection as its oldest. In Ma…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Yeko builds sky, hills and girl from one rhythm of strokes, until it is hard to tell where the young woman ends and the earth begins.
