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Curator's Note

Look long enough and the noise resolves into order: the whole field is built to read the same upside down. Anth Ezeokoye's training as an a…

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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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One plane parked, one lifting away: the two halves of every trip home. Anth Ezeokoye spells the airport's name across the terminal exactly …

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Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

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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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Her face is drawn in black and white while everything around her blooms in colour. Then you notice the hand resting on her shoulder, the on…

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A homage in the caricaturist's language: Fela at the keys, eyes shut, smoke curling, a spotlight from one side and fire rising on the other…

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Sisi is the Yoruba word for a young woman in her prime. Christian paints two of them mid-stride, one gazing up at the other as if the next …

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An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…

Curator's Note

Courage in the letterforms, serenity in the leaves, wisdom in the balance between them. Anth Ezeokoye sets Niebuhr's prayer in bold white o…