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My work explores the materiality of spaces through participation, performance, mapping, and use of tactile pieces and indigenous materials such as earth and water to explore the ephemeral and temporal aspects of places. My approach is informed by the lines of enquiry in my practice around the materiality of spaces, exploring the temporality or fragility of those spaces, and how people navigate and negotiate boundaries.
By centering on imposition and the tension it produces, my work recurrently employs performative strategies to intervene in the shifting contest around rights and freedoms epitomised by territorial struggles. Performative actions are used to play with space and place, often combined with large-scale textile installations. Taking momentum from matters arising within the local, I look outward to draw on the commonality of universal human relations.
By drawing on the influence of multiple artistic traditions, I also move beyond tactile forms to employ the use of text and speech as intervention, in works such as Boko, to interrogate penal codes enshrined in divine law, often sealed off from scrutiny. Since much of my process sets out to question and reconsider inherited ideas, my approach remains expansive and multi-disciplinary, including photography, film and publication.
CV
Education
M.A. Art & Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London
Solo Exhibitions
(2017) From Chibok to Calais: Ort Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Curated By Josephine Reichert, Commissioned by Arts Council England
Residencies
(2018) Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem, Israel
Presentations/Lectures
(2016) Sacred Sites and Shifting Spaces: Autograph ABP, London, UK
(2014) Gender and Sexuality in Postcolonial Africa Conference, Nssuka, Nigeria
Publications
(2017) Contemporary Performance Almanac edited by Caden Manson.
(2015) Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century by Liz McQuiston. Published by Phaidon
Group Exhibitions
2019
14.12.2019
Solar dos Abacaxis – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
01.11.2019 – 03.11.2019
Small Acts ArtX, Lagos, Nigeria
24.10.2019 – 27.10.2019
100% VROUW Alkmaar, the Netherlands
01.02.2019 – 24.02.2019
U Bent Hier (You Are Here): The PLAYroom, Zaandam, the Netherlands
2018
09.12.2018
Global Videos: the Netherlands / Germany / Pakistan / Hong Kong
31.08.2018 – 29.09.2018
My Earth Your Sea Our Skies: Klimawechsel (Climates of Change) MKH Biennale, Halberstadt, Germany
2017
14.10.2017 – 22.11.2017
Living On The Edge: Lagos Biennial, Nigeria
12.03.2017 – 28.05.2017
Duizend Bommen En Granaten (One Thousand Bombs And Grenades): Den Helder, the Netherlands
2016
16.11.2016 – 08.12.2016
Ibero-American Utopias: Embassy of Brazil, London
10.12.2016
‘Work This Earth’ Performance: Podium De Flux, Zaandam, the Netherlands
20.08.2016 – 19.09.2016
Global Village: Stichting White Cube, Copenhagen
24.06.2016 – 04.07.2016
Global Village: Stichting White Cube, Landshut
30.04.2016 – 29.05.2016
Systemic Equality: Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, New York
28.01.2016 – 17.04.2016
Faith [In]Action: United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis
28.01.2016 – 17.04.2016
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Her: Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
2015
25.11.2015 – 19.12.2015
I Can’t Breathe: Arc Gallery, Chicago
10.11.2015 – 15.11.2015
Outcry: African American Museum, Philadelphia
24.09.2015 – 27.09.2015
Refit: Rag Factory, London