Chinedu

I make art for different reasons: to entertain, to share, to remember.

I made this sculpture during the elections in Lagos as I watched a man being told he couldn't run for governor, being insulted, not because he wasn't good enough, wasn't skilled enough, but simply because of his lineage. Because he also happened to be Igbo.

I watched the stories circulate, watched them grow and shift and take on lives of their own. Hate that was bubbling under the surface, now alive in my eyes.

I had never seen anything like it.

The sculpture came out of me, representing everything that I was at the time: angry, hurt, and of course, Igbo.

I make art to remember, and this is one of those times.