Bushmeat Trying to be Colourful - 2009
Synthetic Leather Offcuts, Fabric Offcuts
245 x 230 x 5 cm
Exhibition History:
Group Exhibition 2021-08-28 The Invincible Hands, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art
Group Exhibition 2009-11-17 FIAC, Algiers, Musée National D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain
Solo Exhibition 2009-08-15 Seven Days Live Art
"Whilst on a residency in Europe, homesick and all, I got in a conversation on Facebook, with some university schoolmates of mine. Now, one of them had posted on Facebook saying: "" Maths: One bushmeat at hand is worth two supermodels on E TV!!"" Finding this interesting, and going with this curious joke, I amicably asked what this meant and how it happens that 'bushmeat' (Anu-nchi in the Igbo Language- [He is also Igbo, like myself]) can be placed side by side in a situation with 'supermodels on E TV'? As other men joined the conversation, we established and we understood clearly, I especially, that women in general are a.k.a. Bushmeat. Well... ... What can I say? Just that we are but bushmeat only trying to be colourful, where we can. Are we?
I was taught that we raise kings! Then plans changed, and we became ‘bushmeat’. Or both, or none, or more…"