Divination Painting No. 22

Jebila Okongwu

Divination Painting No. 22, 2018120 x 100cm10000 USD
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
oil on linenBaert GalleryLos Angeles
Description
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Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant and dynamic composition of overlapping geometric shapes in contrasting yellow and black hues. The shapes resemble stylized banana designs, creating a visually striking and playful pattern. Subject Matter: The dominant subject matter is the repeated banana motif, which appears to be a reference to the brand or packaging design of a premium banana product. Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork employs a bold, graphic design style, utilizing flat, geometric shapes and a repetitive pattern to create a visually striking and eye-catching composition. Context: The piece seems to be a contemporary graphic design or pop art-inspired work that explores the commercial and branding aspects of a premium banana product, potentially commenting on consumerism or the mass production of everyday items. ...

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Jebila Okongwu
Artist
Jebila Okongwu
B.1975

Jebila Okongwu critiques stereotypes of Africa and African identity and repurposes them as counterstrategies, drawing on African history, symbolism, and spirituality. One of his preferred materials is banana boxes; their tropicalized graphics articulate an ‘exotic’ provenance, much like the exoticization of African bodies from an ethnocentric perspective. When these boxes are shipped to the West from Africa, the Caribbean and South America, old routes of slavery are retraced, accentuating existing patterns of migration, trade, and exploitation. Okongwu often investigates methods to communicate what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as colonialism, racism, and exploitation, and how to represent this aspect of blackness. His frequent use of imagery related to BDSM is not an attempt to allude to the histories of domination and oppression by analogy with these practices, where acts of submission are obviously voluntary, but as an instrument to examine roles of difference and the embodiment of certain types of sensations. The artist is questioning how difference becomes material within the contexts of race and power. By the layering of the exoticized and stereotyped corporate logos of multinational banana importers with imagery related to BDSM, he attempts to articulate the complex histories of physical experience on the body of the other, where domination and brutality have not only been profitable, but also eroticized. ...

Jebila Okongwu: Artworks
Divination Painting No. 22
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Premium Quality Bananas (study)
Jebila OkongwuPremium Quality Bananas (study), 2019Price on Request
Divination Painting No. 16
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Baert Gallery
Gallery
Baert Gallery
Los Angeles

Founded in 2016, Baert Gallery maintains a distinct focus on bridging the historical legacies and artistic sensibilities of Europe and Los Angeles. Working with a roster of emerging artists, the gallery is committed to showcasing a diverse program of work that engages complex philosophical, critical, and political concepts while challenging settled and conventional aesthetic expectations. Located in Los Angeles’ Arts District, the gallery is dedicated to fostering and promoting the region’s unique art scene in a spirit of local cooperation and in dedication to mindful sensitivity towards its broader geographical and social milieu. ...