Visit to “Craving for Southern Light” with Otobong Nkanga

On the occasion of her participation in the Articulacions study program, the artist Otobong Nkanga will conduct a dialogue visit to her exhibition Craving for Southern Light. We invite you to join us on this tour of the exhibition where Nkanga herself will describe her work processes, her methodologies, references and imaginaries as well as the urgencies and drivers of her practice.

Otobong Nkanga (Kano, Nigeria, 1974) is an artist who sees the world as a succession of interconnected occurrences and superimposed layers. In her understanding, nothing happens if not in relation to the environment we live in or flee from, to our personal and political histories, our bodies and memories. This might be why she requires different artistic means to complete her broad understanding of the world. Using drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation and performance, Nkanga opens up the possibilities of complexity to synthesize an idea, life process or viewpoint that will define the present moment. Her position and practices are deep and poetic and never leave the viewer indifferent.