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WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI

Wura-Natasha Ogunji's hand-stitched drawings on architectural tracing paper are inspired by daily interactions in Lagos, Nigeria.

Hurry! I brought cake

2023

thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper

24” h x 24” w

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Lagoons and Lagoons and Lagoons

2021

Thread, ink, graphite, collage on paper

6 panels (60" h x 144" w)

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A Normal day of Love and Brutality

2023

Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper

24" h x 24" w

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"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

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"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."