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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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A fairy tale rewritten by someone it left out. Emmanuel's mermaid has an afro, a crown and an ocean that answers to her. For some children …

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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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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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Nothing in Alive is solid. A light passed through the dark again and again, and the camera kept every pass, blue shot through with pink. Fo…

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Yeko calls her son her Sun, and this is a picture of carrying one. A pregnant woman balances a tall patterned vessel on her head, eyes clos…

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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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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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Emmanuel takes the thing a woman is taught to cover and paints it as weather: vitiligo shaped like clouds at first light. It is the gentles…

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Precious Emeka Anih paints pressure from every side: a young man doubled over as hands reach in from a burning sky, his creative fire burni…