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Nigerian-American artist Dozie Kanu on disrupting the norm
Nigerian-American artist Dozie Kanu on disrupting the norm
With an exhibition at Galeria Madragoa in Lisbon, Dozie Kanu talks discarded objects, disorderly design and architectural ambition in an interview for Wallpaper’s March 2021 issue
Dozie Kanu at his studio in Santarém, Portugal, with works in progress.
Photography: Luther Konadu
Dozie Kanu creates artworks that are disobedient and stubbornly slippery. They resist classification and exist instead as communicative or performative objects. These objects are filtered through a personal lens drawn from the artist’s lived experiences as a Nigerian-American and member of the diaspora, both anchored in a Blackness the poet Fred Moten describes, in his book