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Dozie Kanu

merrill-y, 202075.5 x 72.5 x 125cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
stainless steel, found retail clothing hanger, steel, found mannequin torso, found rams head and chrome powder-coatingProject Native Informant
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a minimalist, geometric composition with distinct visual elements. The main structure is a simple black metal stand with two elevated platforms, creating an asymmetrical design. Contrasting this industrial aesthetic, the piece incorporates a golden, ornate sculpture that resembles a horned animal or mythical creature resting on a stone-like base. The combination of sleek, modern forms and ornamental, organic shapes suggests a tension between the rational and the intuitive. The artist's intention behind this work may be to explore the interplay between technology, nature, and the human imagination within the realm of contemporary art. ...

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Dozie Kanu
Artist
Dozie Kanu
B.1993, American/Nigerian

Appropriating 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
Chair [iii] Commission
Dozie KanuChair [iii] Commission, 2018Price on Request
Healthy Minds Must Grow, Watch From The Bleachers
Dozie KanuHealthy Minds Must Grow, Watch From The Bleachers, 2020Price on Request
Shrine On (Use a Pillow)
Dozie KanuShrine On (Use a Pillow), 2019Price on Request
hemorrhaged and made deaf
Dozie Kanuhemorrhaged and made deaf, 2020Price on Request
AB (Blood Type)
Dozie KanuAB (Blood Type), 2021Price on Request
negative (Blood Type)
Dozie Kanunegative (Blood Type), 2021Price on Request
Headboard (Abject Twin)
Dozie KanuHeadboard (Abject Twin), 2021Price on Request
At The Moment
Dozie KanuAt The Moment, 2021Price on Request
Chair [ xiii ] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule)
Dozie KanuChair [ xiii ] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule), 2019Price on Request
Bench on 84s
Dozie KanuBench on 84s, 2017Price on Request
Chair [ v ] (Electric Chair)
Dozie KanuChair [ v ] (Electric Chair), 2018Price on Request
Emo State
Dozie KanuEmo State, 2020Price on Request
0’s and 1’s
Dozie Kanu0’s and 1’s, 2020Price on Request
merrill-y
Dozie Kanumerrill-y, 2020Price on Request
Headboard Trial
Dozie KanuHeadboard Trial, 2021Price on Request
Proper Distraction (Mirror)
Dozie KanuProper Distraction (Mirror), 2019Price on Request
Prediction
Dozie KanuPrediction, 2019Price on Request
teepee home (Pro Impact)
Dozie Kanuteepee home (Pro Impact), 2016Price on Request
Bhad (Their Newborn’s Crib)
Dozie KanuBhad (Their Newborn’s Crib), 2019Price on Request
hollow tips exhausted forcing light
Dozie Kanuhollow tips exhausted forcing light, 2023Price on Request
fire thumbnail gleam barely aware
Dozie Kanufire thumbnail gleam barely aware, 2023Price on Request
memories let me be (adornment slaughtered)
Dozie Kanumemories let me be (adornment slaughtered), 2023Price on Request
hang something metric
Dozie Kanuhang something metric, 2022Price on Request
Headboard (a tribe sleep)
Dozie KanuHeadboard (a tribe sleep), 2022Price on Request
Student Loan Debt Relief 2
Dozie KanuStudent Loan Debt Relief 2, 2019Price on Request
Shack
Dozie KanuShack, 2022Price on Request
Project Native Informant
Gallery
Project Native Informant
London

Contemporary 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.