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born 1975 Nigeria
Jude Anogwih (born 1975) is a Nigerian multimedia artist, curator, and educator. He was born in Sokoto, Nigeria, and has worked extensively in contemporary art, video art, drawing, painting, and installation.
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It is not only about “changing city and shifting spaces it is also about negotiating these changes and shifts.
It may seem painterly, but for me, it is drawing, working with lines, because lines connect in different ways.
I am inspired by the physical structure of the National Theatre, the beauty of the landscape and the diversity of interest.
The essence for the viewer is to connect to the moving image, not to deduce a direct meaning but perspectives of interpretations.
The unsteadiness of the camera is a conscious reflection of the moving hand that is holding the pen and making inscriptions on a surface.
My video works are more of drawings with the camera.
We should take out that word ‘national’ and reconstruct that word ‘theatre’. It could become a play house or an artist city.
This body of work deconstructs modern spaces and encourages you to re-imagine your cities and reconstruct it with less money and segregation but more understanding and communality. Do it.
My works are not political, but they just address common knowledge and senses and look at it from a perspective that is layered with metaphors of colour, form and abstraction.
I am putting more emphasis on collaborative ideas, and the flexibility to bring them to fruition
My drawings are kind of maps that retrace and reinterpret my constant – physical and imagined – movement within my local environment and my travels afar.
I’m inspired by my personal encounters, travels and ideas that redefine the cityscape. My works are not political, but they just address common knowledge and senses and look at it from a perspective that is layered with metaphors of colour, form and abstraction.
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