Nnenna Okore (Nigerian, born 1975) Dead Wood 110 x 89cm (43 5/16 x 35 1/16in). (in 9 pieces)
Procedencia : Provenance A private collection. After spending the first four years of her life in Australia, Nnenna Okore moved back with her parents to Nigeria to the university town of Nsukka where her parents were academics. While inspired by the local architecture, the adobe style of housing and corrugated roofs, Okore was attracted more to the nature of the land and its materials potential to transform. Moreover, upon moving to the United States in her early to mid-twenties, the stark contrast of the concrete landscape strengthened her thematic tropes of age, decay, new life, and fragility within her work. In line with these central themes, Okore's artistic process adheres to a slow process in treating and transforming upcycled materials as well as practising weaving and dyeing to make disregarded materials beautiful again. As well as natural materials, Okore's works consistently challenges environmental neglect, consumerism and globalisation. It is this revitalisation of materials that makes Okore one of her generation's most exciting and innovative artists working within the genre of urban recyclia.
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