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Curator's Note

The centrepiece of Toni Kuyinu's royal trio, and the only face that meets us head-on, yet his eyes are closed. Nothing is being claimed or …

Curator's Note

Her eyes are closed, and that changes everything. She is not surveying a court; she is somewhere inward, chin lifted, a queen with no need …

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Notice Me is a title that asks, and a pose that does not need to. Her head is tipped back, eyes closed, beads flying loose from her throat:…

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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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Start at the white star in the centre and follow one petal outward. Ibrahim packs leaves, scrolls and hatching so densely that every return…

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Heiwa is Japanese for peace, and Ezeh crowns the drawing with heavy block characters above a hand rising out of swirling waves. Then a ribb…

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There is a moment when something long known becomes clear. Mikenobi gives it a carved face, in the spirit of the Igbo carvings that give fo…

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The last of Joshua Omoijiade's horseman collection, “the bringers of death in a world of my fashioning”. Babi holds a skull close, one hand…

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A single balloon, four strings, and a lion who clearly disagrees. Anth Ezeokoye turns the Igbo proverb Onye kwe, chi ya ekwe into a deadpan…

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Watch the last word swell until it nearly fills the page. Loved is a prayer for ordinary days, when the noise gets in. Anth Ezeokoye letter…