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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
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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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Silk has always meant luxury. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon gives the word to Ankara, wrapping a woman in Nigeria's beloved wax-print cloth: our …
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STU. 59/60● Selling FastCurator's Note
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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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The collar is the detail to find: wide, white and a little old-fashioned, worn with complete confidence. Ekundayo keeps her face in quick p…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
The building every Lagosian can draw from memory, its roof shaped like a general's cap, with a working crane standing beside it. Anth Ezeok…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The molue at the front of this picture has mostly left Lagos roads, which is exactly why it belongs here. Anth Ezeokoye parks the old Merce…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
A butterfly's beauty is half the story; the rest is the change it took. Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging, the one at…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
A building made of angles, drawn so that it seems to move while standing still. Anth Ezeokoye catches the Civic Centre from the road, with …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
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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STU. 60/60Curator'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…
