FISHES OR CRABS
FISHES OR CRABS
ẸJA M BÁKÀN?
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Fishes or Crabs? (Ẹja m Bákàn?)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2018
My love, best friend,companion, and confidant
My love, best friend, companion, and confidant left me yesterday.
She finally drove away with her husband yesterday in the morning, to his place in Florida, several hours away from me.
Gudugudu
Artists: Moyo Okediji with Foluke Olukanmi and Jumoke Awodeyin.
Title: Gudugudu
Medium: Installation
Date: 2018.
Akodi Orisa, Ile Ife.
Can your Buhari even think of this?
Can your Buhari even think of this?/ Can your APC or PDP ever contemplate it?/Do your Nigerian politicians really understand this?/The new prime minister of Ethiopia initiates the clean up of the street of the homeless, dirt and dereliction./9jazz, check out this video and ask if your government has any room for you in Nigeria.
Can your Buhari even think of this?
Can your Buhari even think of this?/ Can your APC or PDP ever contemplate it?/Do your Nigerian politicians really understand this?/The new prime minister of Ethiopia initiates the clean up of the street of the homeless, dirt and dereliction./9jazz, check out this video and ask if your government has any room for you in Nigeria.
The Trial of the Snail and the Tortoise
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: The Trial of the Snail and the Tortoise
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2018
THE CHILD BREAKS THE SHELL OF A SNAIL, NOT THAT OF A TORTOISE.
Why the Tortoise and the Dog Quarrel All the Time.
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Why the Tortoise and the Dog Quarrel All the Time.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Date: 2018
Ifa reads
Ifa reads the ọpọ́n of 2019 elections in Nigeria and shakes his head at Ìwòrì Méjì, which says inter alia, that:
Pregnant women will no longer be delivered.
The barren ones will remain barren.
The sick will remain infirm.
Small rivers will dry up.
Once Upon a Time,the Tortoise
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Once Upon a Time, the Tortoise
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Date: 2018
The First Akodi Orisa
The Akodi Orisa that I constructed in 2011, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria. It is the model for the one in Ile Ife.
The first Akodi Orisa
This is the first Akodi orisa that I constructed in 2011 in Ondo.
I had no trouble whatsoever from anybody when I built the studio-museum there.
I am therefore surprised that the one in Ile Ife, just finished in 2018, has attracted so much attention.
The art editor
Kally Ozolua, the art editor of The Nation Newspaper has a good story on my arrest by THE NIGERIA POLICE.