Dozie Kanu
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The artwork features a minimalist, industrial-inspired lamp composed of a perforated metal shade mounted atop three slender metal legs. The color palette is primarily monochromatic, with the metal components in shades of silver and the accents in a contrasting deep red. The overall design emphasizes clean lines and geometric forms, creating a striking visual presence. This sculptural piece likely explores the interplay between function and form, highlighting the artist's interest in the aesthetic potential of everyday objects and materials. ...
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Dozie Kanu
B.1993, American/NigerianAppropriating found objects and refashioning them to new aesthetics, Dozie Kanu creates sculptures and photography that are inherently disobedient and stubbornly slippery. They resist classification and exist instead as communicative or performative objects. Kanu’s ongoing investigation into the limits of form, functionality, materiality and usefulness are often filtered through a personal lens drawn from the artist’s lived experiences. In the artist’s debut solo exhibition at Project Native Informant, Owe Deed, One Deep, 2020, every sculpture remixes and modifies found objects, with the visible rust as a reminder of how readily items are discarded once they are deemed no longer productive. The repurposing of objects deemed useless, the artist honours and reanimates the people whose labour gave them function. In extending the lives of these unwanted items, he perpetuates the existence of those who brought them into being. His memorialisation is a site of collective mourning which has not yet ceased to exist, acknowledging that the pathways and legacies of the oppressive systems of the past continue to characterize the present. ...
Dozie Kanu: Artworks
Project Native Informant
LondonContemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.