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ARTIST: LULADEY TESHOME
NATIONALITY: ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹
CATEGORY: PAINTING
This artwork shows the positive effect of the corona virus , the coming together of Africans, show of love and kindness to one another and the period of reflection. The essence of that togetherness is what is captured in this painting.
ARTIST: SARRA BEN FTIMA
NATIONALITY: TUNISIA 🇹🇳
CATEGORY: PAINTING
Description: This art piece embodies all the happenings ongoing this period. The Africa map represents Africa, a woman and her child wearing masks, the coronavirus round the painting. In each corona virus representation are different elements; the testing of people to know their status, sanitization of public spaces, testing temperature before entering public spaces and a sick patient breathing with the aid of an oxygen mask.
ARTIST: SELVIA TALAT
NATIONALITY: EGYPT 🇪🇬
Type of Work: PAINTING: oil colors on canavas 70×50 cm
This art sees Africa inside a large-sized corona virus and in the middle an African woman who was infected with Corona and is trying to recover by taking a dose of oxygen and medicine. Below shows how the doctors try and struggle to sterilize and save the lives they can, next those hands represent every African hand that cries out and asks for help and seeks to avoid exposure to Corona.
ARTIST: NAHIMANIA PRINCE
NATIONALITY: RWANDA 🇷🇼
CATEGORY: PAINTING
This artwork is a beaded lot with a story on each side. From the hand showing togetherness and the coming together of individuals to protect each other and fight the virus, to the Africa map representing Africa and the giraffe and deer representing the wildlife which Africa is known for.
Title: ỤKPỤRỤ
Artist: Nwamaka Akah
Medium: Digital
Year:2021
Size: 13×13 Inches
Description: ỤKPỤRỤ is part of the series ÒGBÁNJÉ. The series highlights my findings on what Ndigbo call ÒGBÁNJÉ, which in literal terms are spirits that repeat the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, at will, and very often. Hence, the name.
In my research into this phenomenon, I found that ÒGBÁNJÉ is grouped according to what each spirit loved to do and for this series, I highlighted four of them; Ògbánjé egwu, ògbánjé mma, ògbánjé ije and ògbánjé Ifunanya.
Ụkpụrụ is a fabric pattern Ndị Igbo create with various nsịbịdị marks to tell a story. Some of the marks on this work are nsịbịdị symbols for things like Congress, Union, death of a friend and also some traditional Uli marks which I tweaked for aesthetic harmony.
For everything in life, you need to get close enough to see the true picture, which is how my journey towards knowing about Igbo Cosmology has been.
That distance between us and our tradition, created by displacement and demonization
Title: ÒGBÁNJÉ IFUNANYA
Artist: Nwamaka Akah
Medium: Digital
Year:2021
Size: 13×13 Inches
Description: ÒGBÁNJÉ Ifunanya is part of the series ÒGBÁNJÉ. The series highlights my findings on what Ndigbo call ÒGBÁNJÉ, which in literal terms are spirits that repeat the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, at will, and very often. Hence, the name.
In my research into this phenomenon, I found that ÒGBÁNJÉ is grouped according to what each spirit loved to do and for this series, I highlighted four of them; Ògbánjé egwu, ògbánjé mma, ògbánjé ije and ògbánjé Ifunanya.
The mark you see on this work is the Nsịbịdị symbol for Ifunanya (love) hence the name ÒGBÁNJÉ Ifunanya.
For everything in life, you need to get close enough to see the true picture, which is how my journey towards knowing about Igbo Cosmology has been.
That distance between us and our tradition, created by displacement and demonization.
Title: ÒGBÁNJÉ EGWU
Artist: Nwamaka Akah
Medium: Digital
Year:2021
Size: 13×13 Inches
Description: ÒGBÁNJÉ Egwu is part of the series ÒGBÁNJÉ. The series highlights my findings on what Ndigbo call ÒGBÁNJÉ, which in literal terms are spirits that repeat the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, at will, and very often. Hence, the name.
In my research into this phenomenon, I found that ÒGBÁNJÉ is grouped according to what each spirit loved to do and for this series, I highlighted four of them; Ògbánjé egwu, ògbánjé mma, ògbánjé ije and ògbánjé Ifunanya.
The mark you see on this work is the Nsịbịdị symbol for Egwu (music) hence the name ÒGBÁNJÉ Egwu.
For everything in life, you need to get close enough to see the true picture, which is how my journey towards knowing about Igbo Cosmology has been.
That distance between us and our tradition, created by displacement and demonization.
Title: ÒGBÁNJÉ MMA
Artist: Nwamaka Akah
Medium: Digital
Year:2021
Size: 13×13 Inches
Description: ÒGBÁNJÉ Mma is part of the series ÒGBÁNJÉ. The series highlights my findings on what Ndigbo call ÒGBÁNJÉ, which in literal terms are spirits that repeat the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, at will, and very often. Hence, the name.
In my research into this phenomenon, I found that ÒGBÁNJÉ is grouped according to what each spirit loved to do and for this series, I highlighted four of them; Ògbánjé egwu, ògbánjé mma, ògbánjé ije and ògbánjé Ifunanya.
The mark you see on this work is the Nsịbịdị symbol for mma (beauty) hence the name ÒGBÁNJÉ Mma.
For everything in life, you need to get close enough to see the true picture, which is how my journey towards knowing about Igbo Cosmology has been.
That distance between us and our tradition, created by displacement and demonization
Title: ÒGBÁNJÉ IJE
Artist: Nwamaka Akah
Medium: Digital
Year:2021
Size: 13×13 Inches
Description: ÒGBÁNJÉ Ije is part of the series ÒGBÁNJÉ. The series highlights my findings on what Ndigbo call ÒGBÁNJÉ, which in literal terms are spirits that repeat the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, at will, and very often. Hence, the name.
In my research into this phenomenon, I found that ÒGBÁNJÉ is grouped according to what each spirit loved to do and for this series, I highlighted four of them; Ògbánjé egwu, ògbánjé mma, ògbánjé ije and ògbánjé Ifunanya.
The mark you see on this work is the Nsịbịdị symbol for Ije (travelling) hence the name ÒGBÁNJÉ Ije.
For everything in life, you need to get close enough to see the true picture, which is how my journey towards knowing about Igbo Cosmology has been.
That distance between us and our tradition, created by displacement and demonization.
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: fade
Size: 3 x 3ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2021
As beautiful as rose in the morning, why does it fade at noon but the bricks don’t. I looked deeply into the space asking rhetorical questions to my imaginary friends. I am in my prime, fighting the good fight of faith, holding my head high even when they try to bring it down, My tears have run down my cheeks a lot of times, but have chosen to wear the coat of achievement ,my tears was never for failure but the rough part, the war, the mental and emotional battle I fought and still fighting , all I have chosen to rise above their limitation. I weep for that girl child that dares to dream big, what package does the society have for her? That girl child that aspires to be a footballer like Asisat Oshoala, will she be made to swallow her dream and please the society? Will the society help her achieve her dream without leaving a scar in her heart? Or will the society let her FADE just like the evening rose.
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma URUNWA
Size: 16 x 24 inches
Medium: mood
Year: 2020
It is said happiness is the key, what then is the lock ? I ask. I feel overwhelmed and pulled from different directions, long before my existence decisions have been made about my future, with no one asking me what I want. How am I supposed to have my own dreams and still fit into all these expectations? To preserve my sanity and quell the rising conflict within, I find myself splitting into different personalities. This is the price I am ready to pay for my dreams, I am ready to have it all. The society tells me that I am not qualified because of my sex , they say no matter the price I pay it goes against its norms and values, what norms I ask what norms! I scream. Is it the norms that feels safer in my failure and rather cry over my grave, than celebrate my victory when I am alive? I refuse to be limited by these norms, I have taken control of my destiny.
Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: Amazon
Size: 2 X 3 ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020
CHRONICLES OF AN AMAZON
I heard wailing and palming with scratching of metals and muscles, I led the path, I engineered the route and my burning excitement of victory invited my nature HE made me, and so it was in my hiding closet, my once adoring closet where ALL success that were virtue to masses, my once alarming masses, were disowned. I behold their flaws and were seeming mine, as I had once engineered for their future, for their energetic victory that no man of mine generations calls to mind.
Behold, my own selves in the line of a denied raced that I knowet not of her origin, behold my once alliance that no meaning was named, as I have become their possession still.
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: strength in femenity
Size: 3 X 4ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2019
The feminine are seen as weak, but this weakness are experiences that make them strong. women are toughened by the experiences they go through in life. The bricks in this painting signify their strength and experiences. So many women have found motivation in the experiences their environment subjects them to, and today they have broken boundaries.
The hand fixing the bricks signifies a girl-child fixing herself, telling herself that she doesn’t need to pass through the traumatic, and emotional domestic violence the mother passed through Because her bricks were broken at a young age, she was made to fix them, thereby fixing her strength.
The flower suggests how women are naturally blessed. Women are meant to be appreciated.
Painting done in support of women, no matter the place you find your self never look down on you being a woman because you are special.
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: body rhythm
Size: 2 X 3 ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2020
Connecting the harmony and melody to rhythmic movement of the female body, the beauty that lies in the figure, the dynamic aura from the movement of the body, its said to be a perfecto…
(The soul dance not to the beat produce by the blood while going down the veins, its genre has no connection with the sounds produced by the intestine while dismantling the food.)
I believe beauty goes beyond the physical attributes but also in relationship with intellectual beauty, creative beauty, sports beauty etc
Then after savouring this rhythm I asked the question of WHY
If we really love and adore, Why still hurt this beautiful rhythm, why lay a hand, why rape a girl child? (Why)
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: forgotten pregnancy
Size: 2.5 X 3.5 ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2021
At first sight of the work, thoughts of so many things come to mind;
#Renaissance (rebirth): Perhaps the period and partly the message the work carries. Just like the motto of the *”art movement/period”* implies ‘Back to the source’, which was derived from the Latin words “Ad Fontes”.
#Affluence: Considering the *multiple* cowries she’s adorned with. Wherever the cowrie shells are found, they almost always symbolize wealth and fertility.
Spiritual meaning. In African legend, a love of cowrie shells shows that you could be family to an ocean spirit of wealth and earth. It also represents the Goddess of protection in the ocean(# individual belief/societal belief)
#Humanism: Talk of care, bond and procreation.
#Snail shell: Here, one disects Patience, humour, defense, resilience, self worth and protection.
Artist: Ikegwuonu Chidimma Urunwa
Title: forgotten pregnancy
Size: 2.5 X 3.5 ft
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2021
At first sight of the work, thoughts of so many things come to mind;
#Renaissance (rebirth): Perhaps the period and partly the message the work carries. Just like the motto of the *”art movement/period”* implies ‘Back to the source’, which was derived from the Latin words “Ad Fontes”.
#Affluence: Considering the *multiple* cowries she’s adorned with. Wherever the cowrie shells are found, they almost always symbolize wealth and fertility.
Spiritual meaning. In African legend, a love of cowrie shells shows that you could be family to an ocean spirit of wealth and earth. It also represents the Goddess of protection in the ocean(# individual belief/societal belief)
#Humanism: Talk of care, bond and procreation.
#Snail shell: Here, one disects Patience, humour, defense, resilience, self worth and protection.
Artist : Tapchin Dawurang
Title : ‘to leave a message press one’
Year : 2021
Size : 16×20
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Description : sometimes to remain/regain sanity, we need a break from the busy lifestyle to just relax and chill in our head space.
Artist : Tapchin Dawurang
Title : the passage of time
Year : 2020
Size : 16×20
Medium : acrylic on canvas
Description : why dwell on the saying ‘you never know what you have until you lose it’, whatever it is you have within your reach, make the best of it today, tomorrow, yearly, so you can proudly say I didn’t miss out on this
ARTIST: ADOO KUMA ASSOH
TITLE: KWASE (WOMAN)
YEAR: 2021
MEDIUM: DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
SIZE: 12”X 12”
DESCRIPTION:
A woman in all her glory.
“Pained but maintaining beauty””
Despite the criticism from society about her dress, piercings, skin, etc.
A woman is strong and is always ready to show up because her strength is from within her.
ARTIST: ADOO KUMA ASSOH
TITLE: SWANGE
YEAR: 2021
MEDIUM: DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
SIZE: 12”X 12”
DESCRIPTION:
The Swange is a form of urban recreational dance among the Tivpeople of Benue State Nigeria in which men and women dance together. This dance uses the circle formation familiar in village dances and adapts traditional musical themes to highlife rhythms okayed on a combination of Tiv musical instruments.