Black Water Pillars
Provenance : This work has been kindly donated by the artist
Notes : Modupeola Fadugba (b. 1985, Togo) is an artist who tells triumphant stories of swimmers and lifeguards from Accra, Abuja, Lagos, Dakar, Philadelphia and Harlem. Stories beyond survival – stories of community, learning, teaching, togetherness and play. In an attempt to capture the representative group and individual portraits, her paintings have moved from abstraction to realism, spilled over into poems and performance, been experienced through documentary film and immersive installation.
Black Water Pillars illustrates the process of remembrance, back to childhood memories in post-genocide Rwanda and reminds Fadugba of how much Rwanda’s story has changed in her lifetime. In Black Water Pillars, the aesthetics of orientation and alignment— or lack thereof— reflect Chinua Achebe’s “falling apart” of structures. The tension between order and entropy, the past and future of a nation. As Nigeria ‘reclaims’ the post-colonial, post-war narrative can it revert to ancestral culture or must it borrow wisdom from other countries?
Condition_report : Structure: The work is executed on canvas and stretched with standard woods stretchers.
Surface: The surface of the work is stable.
