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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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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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Pale, brown and near-black hands reach in from every side, and the butterfly settles on the fingertip of a hand painted red. Ezeh gives the…

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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…

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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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For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…

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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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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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Count the eyes: one closed, one open, one at the brow with a spiral for a pupil. Godwin removes the name from the face on purpose, so what …

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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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The rare Ai_mayor picture with no face in it, only the surfaces he usually builds faces from. At its centre a round window splits between l…

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Joshua Omoijiade sets a sombre scene in bright, happy colours: amid all the brightness and fads of life, death is always staring you in the…