Ken Nwadiogbu: UBUNTU @ Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles
Thinkspace Projects // March 06, 2021 - March 27, 2021
March 04, 2021 | in Painting
“My love for drawing faces of everyday people through ripped paper was born from a need to identify Africans in major global contexts,” Ken Nwadiogbu says on the eve of his new solo show,
UBUNTU, at Thinkspace in Los Angeles. “There’ll always be a need to understand and represent people in a different way. This becomes our way of discovering and revealing who we truly are.”
In a truly seminal era for young painters from the African continent, the Nigerian-born Nwadiogbu focuses much of this body of work on the concept of coming full circle. He notes that UBUNTU, the title of the exhibition, can be expressed or translated as the phrase, “I am because we are.” There is weight to this. It speaks to the idea that, as a society and a culture, we share qualities that are passed down through centuries and generations. As we have had