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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.
I don't love you anymore
2020
Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper
4 panels (42" h x 24" w each)
"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