Son of Man
“We are using performance and text to question and investigate masculinity in the Nigerian context, our fathers, brothers, sons and the environment that makes them.”
-Yadichinma Ukoha- Kalu
“Born April 1995 in Lagos, Nigeria, Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu is an experimental artist. She currently lives and works in Lagos. Yadi started showing her work in 2015 in a group exhibition, titled ‘Woman in Bloom’ and over the past four years has featured in group and solo exhibitions in Lagos and around the world. Yadi works with a variety of media from painting, photography, sculpture, to film and digital media. Influenced broadly by a mix of artistic movements, Yadi uses research and documentation of everyday life to instruct her work, resulting in true exploratory experiences taking place in imaginary spaces”
“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
“I never saw anyone that looked like me in movies or on the covers of fashion magazines. I also didn’t see Asian photographers shooting for the magazines I looked at, which made me question if I could even make it as a photographer” – Peter Ash Lee. Xiao Wen Ju graces the pages of Vogue…
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