2018
Online Viewing Room
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI
Wura-Natasha Ogunji's hand-stitched drawings on architectural tracing paper are inspired by daily interactions in Lagos, Nigeria.
"The drawings are perfect, they have perfectly unfolded and not in the pretty kind of way but in the truth kind of way, with uncertainty and me-ness while also being of the world that is not me at all."
Ogunji's performances explore the presence of women in public space, labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity.
Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman?
Excerpt
2013
Single-channel digital video
11:57 minutes
Edition 2 of 5
"While the piece poses questions about the work of women, it is also about labor and the politics of change. How much is enough? What is the tipping point in a society where people struggle to meet basic needs? When do people have an opportunity to rest, reflect, envision, imagine, and enact another way of being? I am particularly interested in the role of women in these dialogues."
I imagined you
2020
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
24" h x 24" w
A series of interconnected pools.
(We talked about nothing for hours)
2018
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
4 panels, 108 x 24 inches each
Unfinished landscape
2020
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
10 panels, 42” h x 24” w each
Night Ride
2020
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
24” h x 24” w
Found at Sea
2020
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
24” h x 24” w