Ndidi Dike, In the Guise of Resource Control
July 1 - 22 2017
Opening on July 1st, from 4 to 9 pm
- Ndidi Dike, In the Guise of Resource Control, 2017, © Ndidi Dike
Current recipient of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship and artist-in-residence Ndidi Dike presents a new body of work produced in Paris for In The Guise of Resource Control, the first solo exhibition to take place at Villa Vassilieff since it opened in February 2016.
The installation traces narratives related to pre-and post-colonial policies of control of natural and human resources in Africa. Its sculptures utilize materials that have metaphorical resonance, engaging in a dialogue with the architectural space of Villa Vassilieff, thereby inviting viewers to consider the implications of African diaspora within a global context. They demonstrate the necessity of deconstructing the social, economic and political complexities of issues such as citizenship, identity, the status of refugees, and migration.
Ndidi Dike (b. London 1960), spent her early years in England, She studied painting, majoring in mixed media painting in the University of Nigeria Nsukka where she obtained a BA degree in 1984. She is a visual artist working in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, mixed media painting and more recently lense based media and video. Teaching herself to sculpt, she has established herself as one of the leading contemporary artists working on the continent, with well over a decade of transgressive sculptural practice. In 2004 she revisited painting in her work : her professional methodology is to locate the appropriate artistic strategy that best suits the subject of contemplation at that moment.. In order to do so, she uses her research of a particular theme or topic. These themes include slavery, consumerism, globalization, urbanism, Nigerian visual culture, art history, cross border/country migration, multi culturalism, post-colonial, studies, identity and contemporary politics. She runs a professional studio in Lagos and has exhibited internationally.
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