The Curiously Dressed Gentleman, a Post-Nigerian Cross-Modal Fable featured at Basel Social Club during Art Basel.
When excavating the roots of African diasporic trauma, one happens upon a mystical seam…The African Jetset series takes a shamanic twist, this retrospection is the future.
Preview from the first volume of my graphic novel series “Hotel Legba” in which the Yoruba gods of the diaspora converge at the crossroads.
Afropunk Festival, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigera 1982. The kids came dressed as cats, we don’t know why…
Continuing the foray into the “Feline Uncanny”. Tension builds as the shapeshifting dream cats gather to what end, who knows?
Inspired by the uncanny glitchiness of nascent AI Animation, reminiscent of the urban ghost stories I grew up with in Nigeria, I have cobbled together a “theater of the uncanny” from my AI video experiments. With an assist from Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The luminous movement behind the movement, invisible lines of flight made visible, culled from the archaic ethers of Isis, dim reflections of a defiant Nefertiti…
My series ‘Afropunk, Lagos, 1982’ will be featured at HEK this November: UNSCHARFE REALITÄTEN – REGIONALE 24» Saturday, 25.11.2023, 19:30 PM About Afropunk Lagos, 1982 This series of images is a rebuttal to the social conservatism by way of formal and informal repressions that dominated my youth in Nigeria. There was a time when it was illegal for women to wear trousers, it was ...
Inserting new narratives into amnesiac gaps created by colonial forces, adept at erasing our past, new mythologies are devised. This is the core of Afrofuturism: a conversation with the past projected into the future… The Warrior Saints dips into a melting pot of West African folklore, oral traditions, and aesthetics to fabricate new modalities. It is also a riposte to the disneyficaton of ...
The series African Jetset is a response to the violence and trauma that has marked the bulk of African migratory patterns, from slavery to economic or conflict driven displacement: “I wanted to create a corrective space, an alternate timeline where there was never any interruption: no slave-trade, no colonialization, no external war or plunder. Instead the continent developed along ...
