Gritty diadem, 2010, beer and coke cans, binding wire and metal, 390cm x 180cm x 240cm. This work with its mix of ideas tries to demonstrate a parody and humor of a royal crown. Man has found himself in an endless pursuit of wants, desires and wishes; we have lived our normal lives in harsh situations as heirs apparent. We sink bore holes for water, run generators for power, drive on bad roads to work, seek healing in unequipped hospitals, lecturers, school teachers and students haggle in dilapidated learning spaces while the labor force still argue with their employers, together with the rage of mass unemployment, while we desire good things in life, we move on in the midst of these conditions.
Slurry Queens Fortress, 2010, paper, top bond and earth, [360cm x 540cm x 180cm] mounds of earth hill made with paper and smeared with earth and spread in the exhibition space informs one’s idea of strength in weakness. This work invokes one’s sense of confidence, assurance and a poise to make do with what we have, by this I mean that one should start up with whatever he has for the sake of buoyancy and reawakening .these elements revolve around personal development and growth. I have been assured of this by the site of many ant hills I have come across. Though these hills come with apparent vulnerability, but in considering the process of making them, one discovers that every one is capable of construction, positive construction. It can be seen that good management of resources can manifest better results.
MARKET HOUNDS, 2010, [wood,tape, snacks and grocery wrappers] 120cm x 560cm x89cm.The work market hound is made up of tape, wood, and snacks and grocery wrappers standing inspace. This work invokes one’s sense of organization, association; group institutions which could be systematized or put in array to convey advantageous economic social life. The inadequate electricity makes it unworkable to do business in Nigeria. Look at the activities surrounding us; one would agree with me that this century Nigeria is ridden with all kinds of social vice, due to persistent being without a job. Streets are besieged with hawkers who customarily would have initiated a gainful employment in some reasonable enterprise.
Hindrance, 2010, plastic bag and wood, 540cm x 240cm x 129cm. this work crudely and shrewdly reechoes the artist in his own manner of defining frustration. Frustration in our attempts to our different vocations, frustration in searching for fulfillment in life, frustrations in living out the ideals of our various professions. The arrangement of this work suggests a ball, or a globe in a net, in closer inspection, the vulnerability of this ball is revealed, as it will move with a simple touch to any destination when it is not held within the confines of this net.
1.Brazenly Disavowed Stratum, 2010, [plastic bags, twine and wood] x150cm.96cm x 5596cm The work Brazenly Disavowed Stratum, comprises of a weaved or crocheted plastic bag spread on a wooden frame, standing perpendicularly with a cone-like shape akin to the face of a loud speaker.Metaphorically it describes the outrageous, but disruptive building up of talk on the solutions to Nigeria`s energy crisis without mindful manifestation of infrastructural changes to support the existing power structures. For more than a decade Nigeria has been experiencing power failure that has affected virtually all aspect of national life. Despite the gigantic noise about the huge budget allocation to this sector, its privatization, change of directors, change of ministers ,personneland other seeming changes around the subject.
RED HOT CITY
2009
ALOZIE ONYIRIOHA
Carton, Paper and Earth
44cm x 790cm x 540cm
Red hot city, 2009: Carton, paper and earth. 44cm x 790cm x 540cm.
The work, Red Hot City, consist of squeezed paper soaked in clay and carton smeared with clay and spread on a very wide space looking like a city better describe the unsustainable way we turn our environment against ourselves.
The heated sensations evoked by the red earth, which results in the smarting of ones eyes with prolonged gazing, reveal the dangers of the wild ravages of deforestation that have instigated desert encroachment and the discussed global warming.Though man depends on the environment for his continued existence, he had pointlessly exploited, degraded and polluted it.
Confined Volatile Bazaar, 2009: Wood, snacks and grocery wrappers, cello tape and baco bag. 366cm x 757cm x 480cm. The work consists of snacks and grocery wrappers waste weaved into a netlike shape on a cello tape spread on boxlike wooden frame curving out from a shopping sack with me and my friends playing within the internment. The exertion necessary illustrates man and his cultural practice in relation to the so called global economic meltdown. Man, while aspiring to remain in the podium of superiority, is finding him self in a pen of endless resources.
Wave Of Prudence 620CMX380CMX120CM (plastic water, twin) 2009In this work, I used very transparent objects that subtly distort one view from a metaphorical perspective, creating an illusion of a mist with a wavelike impression. The process itself expresses the essence of life in our society in a colourful but eccentric wayThe concept is also aimed at illustrating the nature of our future and what we feel about it and how we perceive it, believing that with a renewed willingness on our part we could reshape our future. The approach is deliberate, like a wake-up call for us to be sensitive to our way of life, in the sense that the viewer of this work will be invited to an interaction in the process.
RECKONING TRANSIT 58OCMX170CMX15CM (empty bear,coke can and binding wire) 2009Time is portrayed as the central focus of this installation which consists of a empty coke and beer cans connected with bending wire. Ordinarily I would have placed this work on the ground, but Haven been confronted with time while producing this work I rather chose to suspend it, so as to give it a tunnel like or a clif like shape that will enable the viewers an opportunity to feel the work from every angle while passing through the installation.
SPURRED SPECULATIONS 2009 210CM X 30CM X 180CM Empty bear cans, Coke cans and Metal SPURRED SPECULATIONS 210cmx30cmx180cm (empty bear cans, coke cans, and metal ) 2009The concept behind this work was unpremeditated and sporadic—the media used were actually wastes from previous installations I had assembled during the course of the residency. I had pondered on what to do with these wastes when it dawned on me that I could actually ‘recycle’ them creatively. The theme is actually innuendic ; with these assembled wastes I am trying to address the issue of waste management. I believe that wastes when creatively utilised could be productive.
Prevailing Panoroma (300cm x 220cm x 220cm) plastic water bottle cans, twin and bars. 2009 With this installation I have tried to addresses the issue of Western imperialism and their disturbing clashing interest in West Africa and Africa as a whole, and propose on a an ideal way of responding to them. These interests impede the sociopolitical and economic development in the continent, and have a devastating impact on the minds and general wellbeing, as well as the future of our youths.I have also given viewers of this installation an opportunity to participate in this concept by cutting many strips of empty bottled water containers and creating a crude curtain with them over the entrance of the exhibition. By pushing this curtain of waste apart before entering, they are demonstrating the dire need for an emancipation from this western imposition and an entrance into a new era of freedom void of such negative external influences.
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