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Art News:
Please join us:
Thursday,
October 28, 6 to 8 PM
for the
OPENING
of:
Sokari Douglas Camp
Relative Pelican: An Installation of
Steel Sculptures
October 28 - December 18.
2010
Birds Extinct
Birds, 2010, Steel, Acetate, Glass, Perspex, 81 x 61 x 36 in, 205 x 154 x 92
cm
'They
will
remember that we were sold
but they won't remember that we were strong;
they
will
remember that we were bought
but not that we were brave.
Ex-slave, William
Prescott (1937)
STUX
Gallery, New York, with Independent Curator/Scholar Kunbi Oni, a specialist in Contemporary
African
Art who has taught in New York, lectured in London and at the MoMA
on
Contemporary African Art, is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptures by
Sokari
Douglas Camp. Sokari
is
a prominent sculptor whose work, NO-O-WAR-R NO-O-WAR-R, was short-listed for
London's
Trafalgar
Square Fourth Plinth in 2003. Sokari's current major public commission,
All
the World is Now
Richer,
for Burgess Park, London is to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of
the
slave trade.
Sokari Douglas Camp works in steel
to create sculptures
that
tell very personal stories. In her hands, the hard steel takes surprising
forms
that inspire, challenge and beguile both the heart and the mind.
Sokari's
birthplace,
Buguma,
is in the Niger Delta on the southeastern coast of Nigeria, where today
foreign
oil companies drill for most of the country's petroleum exports,
thereby
causing a fractious relationship between the local population of the region
and
the oil companies. Buguma is also the cultural capital of the
Kalabari,
Sokari's ethnicity - a people known for their traditions
of
masquerade/performances led by troupes of young men in masks and costumes
that
represent the mythological beings known locally as water spirits.
Filtered through this African
background,
an international education and a cosmopolitan life, Sokari Douglas Camp's
objects embody narratives of
the
socio-political (such as Living Memorial, 2006), social (Plastic Bag Series, 2009),
philosophical/existential (Teasing Suicide, 2004),
psychological
(Freud - White
Sacrifice,
1998), and mythical (Alali Aru, 1986) to the more current
political ones, such as Relative (2010), Birds Extinct Birds (2010) and Underskirt Protest (2010). From life size
sculptures of
six
feet tall and much larger to intimate works of just 20 inches high, they
all
captivate and convince of a world that is far away and so close at the
same
time.
Sokari Douglas Camp was born in
Buguma, Nigeria. She currently lives
and
works in London. She has won many awards including the most
prestigious
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 given in
recognition
of her outstanding achievements in the field of art and sculpture. Her work
has
also been prominently featured in the collections of the British Museum,
London,
The National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington
DC and many other public and private collections.
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