Rites of Passage
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Rites of Passage
Medium: silicon on paper
Date: 2020
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Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Rites of Passage
Medium: silicon on paper
Date: 2020
I turn the same painting upside down, as Iya Afilaka instructed me. And it still remains legible.
Why?
Because we have paid Iba (homage)
to the vagina that is turned
upside down, yet
does not drip
Artist and curator of Akodi Orisa adding finishing touches to the phallic-nipple crown of the dome.
WEAPONIZING MEAT What is at stake in Nigeria is much more than the crisis of the…
The mighty and resplendent Iya Iroko
tree had remained rooted
to the same spot
near the Oba river
for three hundred and sixty-four seasons
watching the ways of humans
from the viewpoint of a plant
under which folks sat
Yours truly at the Ohio State University to give a lecture on Friday.
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Wither Wakanda?
Installation
2016 to present.