Nengi Omuku, Repose, 2022, oil on sanyan
Nengi Omuku’s Repose 2022 is currently on view at the Dakar Biennial. The 15th Dakar Biennial runs through to 7 December 2024.
Repose was made following a transformative visit for the artist to a tropical agriculture research center in Ibadan, Nigeria. Omuku was awestruck by the lake near the center, and sketched the water lilies en plein air, creating drawings that became the basis of the painting.
The painting was included in Parables of Joy the artist's first solo
exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and ‘The Dance of People and the Natural World’, her first institutional solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, UK.
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Nengi Omuku (b. 1987, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She received her BA (2010) and MA (2012) from the Slade School of Art, University College London. Omuku is also currently included in Join in and sing!, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria; Exchanges, a collection presentation at the Whitworth, Manchester; and The Poetics of Dimensions, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA.
Repose was made following a transformative visit for the artist to a tropical agriculture research center in Ibadan, Nigeria. Omuku was awestruck by the lake near the center, and sketched the water lilies en plein air, creating drawings that became the basis of the painting.
The painting was included in Parables of Joy the artist's first solo
exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and ‘The Dance of People and the Natural World’, her first institutional solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, UK.
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Nengi Omuku (b. 1987, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She received her BA (2010) and MA (2012) from the Slade School of Art, University College London. Omuku is also currently included in Join in and sing!, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria; Exchanges, a collection presentation at the Whitworth, Manchester; and The Poetics of Dimensions, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA.
7 November 2024
