SMO Contemporary Art is delighted to curate CONVERGENCE, an exhibition of recent works by Obi Okigbo, which explores the artist’s fascination with how our belief systems, behavioral patterns, and aesthetic values have been shaped by ancient art and mythology from different cultures and eras. Okigbo’s experimentation with indian ink on linen, silk, paper, and canvas touch on universal themes of transcendence. Her powerful portraits of heroes of African descent are “ a celebration of collective memory, the archetypal quest for the Self and the truth of our existence”.
Obiageli Annabel Zeinab Okigbo (b. 1964 Ibadan) grew up in Nigeria and studied architecture at Oxford Brooks University before pursuing graduate studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She practiced architecture in London, Rome and Paris until 1995 when she moved to Brussels with her two children and became a full time studio artist. She has exhibited in Nigeria, United Kingdom, Dubai and Belgium including two major solo exhibitions in Lagos (2003) and London (2007). She established the Christopher Okigbo Foundation in 2005, which focuses on researching and preserving the legacy of her late father, the poet Christopher Okigbo.
Obi is also daughter of the late Christopher Okigbo, renowned poet, author. Like her father, she is also a writer, a great author in many respects. Her current exhibition displays some of her great works showing her as a vast, versatile creative individual who has established herself in the creative world.
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