Syncretic Birthrights, digital image 15
Odera Igbokwe
June 12 – July 8, 2023
Creative Access Description
A colour portrait image of a framed oil painting on wood panel mounted on a white wall in a gallery space. The painting is 19 inches by 25 inches tall in a solid, black frame. The painting features a Black youth cradled by a pair of hands. These hands function as a perch or launching pad, as the figure leans out with arms extended, palms facing out as if to step off and take flight. Their soft purple, sleeveless dress’ edge is teased up and behind them by the breeze. Their hair is short and dense, and their forehead and ears are jewelled in gold studs the size of coins. Their make-up is a similar metallic tone and adorns their relaxed closed eyes. Below the cradled hands and figure is a blue watered planet, peeking up from the bottom of the artwork. Above this and behind the figure are active, dancing clouds in mellow yellows, and fiery oranges. The orange pillowy forms rise up into active celestial figures made of flame, motion causing tendrils to swirl and dance around and behind them, bright and in high contrast to the small section of the deep black universe peeking in from the beyond.Description
Detail shot of the work The Spirit Child in Syncretic Birthrights.Identifier
2023.0512 SYN I015Extent
1 digital imageArtist
Odera IgbokwePhotographer
Dennis HaRelated program
Syncretic Birthrights (Related)In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca