JOSEPH OBANÍ-ÌBÍ (OBANUBI)

Personal Statement

My work explores the relationship between identity, fantasy, play, in-between and technologies, within the context of globalization. I describe my  art making practice as a visual bricolage — a (re)construct of fragments found in everyday experiences taken from their original context into a new one. My creative ideology stems from concepts of aggregation, transition, translation, erasure, black futurism, speculation  and experimentation. 

Research methods include physical and digital image making techniques, photographing, drawing, collaging, reading, traveling, observation, intervention and watching experimental videos/films. 

Some primary texts I review are music, films, texts, social-media, oratory/storytelling, and Fiction. My ongoing practice research questions/statements revolve around strategies of constructing alternative ways of seeing and blurring the divide between what is present and what could be.  I am  concerned with materiality and what it communicates within my practice  and  the role of time and ephemeralness as it concerns (new) technologies in my work.