A Hard Ori Makes a Soft Memory
UNTITLED (BRONZE MANNEQUIN HEAD).
2020.
BRONZE.
21” H X 10 1/4” H X 10 1/4” D.
2020.
BRONZE.
21” H X 10 1/4” H X 10 1/4” D.
HOPSCOTCH (A SAFE SPACE TO LAND).
2022.
BIRCH WOOD, RED CLAY SOIL.
8” H X 36” W X 36” D.
2022.
BIRCH WOOD, RED CLAY SOIL.
8” H X 36” W X 36” D.
In the venerative work of Lola Ayisha Ogbara, A Hard Ori Makes a Soft Memory, an arrangement of sculptural objects, exhibit a valiant response to heirlooms lost in history. Using irony and idiomatic language, Ogbara creates reliquaries to make connections across the African diaspora.
Installation Images by Charles Benton