“A Walk” is about embodied experience. A body moving through a landscape, and the entanglements that occur during this movement. The micro movements of my footsteps stitching through the urban landscapes of Lagos, Maiduguri and Abuja, its pathways, pavements and roads form the structure of an inner and outer journeying that occur as I move through this particular space. The images and objects I collect are spatio-temporal experiences entangling with public space. A “Walk” is an intersection of many moving ideas, but what remains constant is the question of how to mend a rupture, stitch a gash, and put the pieces back together of something, perhaps a body, fragmented in the landscape.”
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Title: A Walk landscape V, Abuja 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: Digital print on Matte archival paper
Title: A Walk collage I Size: 12” x 12” inches |30.5 cm x 30.5 cm Material: Digital print on Matte archival paper
"A Walk” sculptures made in situ from palm husks, leaves, sticks, blossoms, torn material and seeds, gathered from walks in Yaba, Lagos, as part of a 11 day walk installation at Treehouse Lagos, 2018. Drawings of "plant cells/ plant spirits" were made on the walls.
Title: A Walk landscape VI, Abuja 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: Digital print on Matte archival paper
Part of "A Walk” sculptures made in situ from palm husks, leaves, sticks, palm blossoms, torn material and seeds, gathered from walks in Yaba, Lagos, as part of a 11 day walk installation at Treehouse Lagos, 2018. Here Plastacine acts as connectors between the various parts of the sculpture.
Title: A Walk collage VI, 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: Digital print on Matte archival paper
"A Walk” sculptures made in situ from palm husks, leaves, sticks, blossoms, torn material and seeds, gathered from walks in Yaba, Lagos, as part of a 11 day walk installation at Treehouse Lagos, 2018.
Title: A Walk landscape VII, Abuja 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: Digital print on Matte archival paper
Trailer for "A Walk" video (2 minutes) Duration of video: 13 minutes Single channel video.
Title: A Walk collage VII, 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: Digital print on matte archival paper
Part of "A Walk” sculptures made in situ from palm husks, leaves, sticks, blossoms, torn material and seeds, gathered from walks in Yaba, Lagos, as part of a 11 day walk installation at Treehouse Lagos, 2018.
Title: A Walk landscape IV, Lagos 2018 Size: 25” x 35” inches | 63.5 cm x 88.9 cm Material: digital print on matte archival paper
"A Walk” sculptures made in situ from palm husks, leaves, sticks, blossoms, torn material and seeds, gathered from walks in Yaba, Lagos, as part of a 11 day walk installation at Treehouse Lagos, 2018. Here passport photographs of the artist taken during one of the walks are buried in the soil.
Installation views of A Walk Sculpture, Lagos, 2019. Produced after 6 days of walking for the Lagos biennial in October 2019.
In this particular installation, “A Walk” is about embodied experience, a body moving and the entanglements that occur during this movement. The objects; plants, soil, slabs of concrete, three lemons I bought on the roadside, branches, my 2 min passport photograph and other ephemera are material for this work that represents daily spatio-temporal experiences entangling with the city.
Installation views of A Walk Sculpture, Lagos, 2019. Produced after 6 days of walking for the Lagos biennial in October 2019.
The hollow copper spirals that circulate through the structure of the installation are parts made for Air Conditioning units and with an essential function to move cool air through its coils. The spirals are also a three-dimensional take on my drawings called “Walk Maps” that I usually draw on walls and paper. Copper is a symbolic material used here to represent a circulatory system that connects and moves
Installation views of A Walk Sculpture, Lagos, 2019. Produced after 6 days of walking for the Lagos biennial in October 2019.
The installation itself is an exposed living body of sorts, as it represents a system of connections between seemingly disparate objects joined together and given life by this transitional moving experience. What remains of A Walk is a memory captured through this installation. The memory of A Walk fades away, just as the organic material in the installation wilts and decomposes over time.
Installation views of A Walk Sculpture, Marrakech, 2020. Part of the group exhibition “Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?” Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco curated by Marie-Ann Yemisi. Taking its title from a song by Yoko Ono, the exhibition explores the politics of space and place and is an invitation to see and know the world differently. The Walk Sculpture installed here features found and encountered materials such as palm husks, bread, plants, tangerines, sticks pulled together by red PVC corrugated conduit tubing and a video of walks in Marrakech. This was made from 6 days of morning walks in different locations in the city.
Installation views of A Walk Sculpture, Marrakech, 2020. Part of the group exhibition “Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?”
Installation views of a few photographs of “ A Walk” series at the group show "Laced" at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK in 2021. [Shots captured by Reece Straw ]