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Curator'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…

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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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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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Fortune shoots from board level and lets the near pieces dissolve. Out of the blur stands one white pawn, flanked by a black pawn and a bla…

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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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A man squats with one hand drawing chalk on the ground and the other pressed to his heart, as shadow figures close in. For Joshua Omoijiade…

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Some women do not wait to be noticed. Ekundayo leaves her body as pencil and paints only the chartreuse dress, and her carriage does the re…

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Before it was a square it was a racecourse, and the horses never left. Anth Ezeokoye puts the rearing horse statues at the centre of the gr…

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Of Toni Kuyinu's three royals, only the king keeps his eyes open, and he wears round wire glasses. A thoroughly modern young man, crowned w…

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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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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…