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acrylic and transfer on canvas
98 x 80cm; 38 1/2 x 31 1/2in
unframed
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MarylandLOT 7 ODINAKACHI OKOROAFOR (NIGERIAN B.1987) SEE THROUGH IV
signed and dated Odinakachi Okoroafor 2022 centre right; inscribed See Through IV / Acrylic and Transfer on Canvas / 100cm x 80cm / 2022 on the reverse
acrylic and transfer on canvas
98 x 80cm; 38 1/2 x 31 1/2in
unframed
Property of a Private Collector, Maryland, USA
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Estimate
£2,000 – £3,000
Buyer’s premium: 25.00% + VAT
Odinakachi Okoroafor is a mixed-media artist living and working in Enugu State, Nigeria, whose practice has attracted growing critical attention for its technical originality and conceptual depth. Working in screen printing, acrylic, and image transfer, he constructs compositions in which the human figure is simultaneously revealed and obscured by densely interlocking fields of line; barcode-like formations and lace-derived structures drawn from the textile traditions of southeastern Nigeria, where intricate needlework has long served as cultural expression.
Okoroafor’s style meditates on the reduction of human beings to units of economic exchange, while the delicacy of his patterning insists on the beauty and complexity of the figures it brings into being, an art of quietly devastating dual consciousness. See Through IV belongs to one of the artist’s most sustained and critically regarded series.
