PEJU ALATISE
Born 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and Glasgow, Scotland.
Peju Alatise has become one of the most widely recognized contemporary artists living and working in Lagos in the last decade. Her ever-evolving practice creates encounters between what is sense and what is known— as a material means to examine Nigeria's shifting order of visibility within the global landscape. From her initial training as an architect to her experiments with a broad spectrum of media, Alatise's work unearths multiple layers of meaning (and often violent historical memories) from beneath the surface of everyday objects, language, and social relations.
Peju Alatise, Lost, 2015,18 mixed media panels, 60 x 8 in each
Peju Alatise, Death and the King's Alaso Ofi (Part 2) I, 2018, Metal, stone cast, wood and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 in
Peju Alatise, Death and the King's Alaso Ofi (Part 2) II, 2018, Metal, stone cast, wood and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 in
Peju Alatise, Death and the King's Alaso Ofi (Part 2) III, 2018, Metal, stone cast, wood and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 in
Peju Alatise, Lagbaja, Tamedu ati Ogbeni (Anybody, Nobody, Somebody) I, II, III, 2019, Metal, wood, glass beads, resin and stone cast, Life-size seated figures, dimensions variable
Peju Alatise , Flying Girls (Venice Biennial 2017, Nigeria Pavilion), 2016, Metal, fiberglass, plaster of Paris, resins, cellulose, black matte paint, 157 x 157 x 110 in
Peju Alatise , Flying Girls (Venice Biennial 2017, Nigeria Pavilion), 2016, Metal, fiberglass, plaster of Paris, resins, cellulose, black matte paint, 157 x 157 x 110 in
Two renowned Nigerian female artists, drawn from different generations, Peju Alatise and Nike Davies-Okundaye, are having their moments in the international limelight at the Frieze Art Fair in London, UK.
The 2022 exhibition is on view through November 13.
Video tour of Peju Alatise's exhibition 'Alafia; at kó, Lagos, Nigeria, April 4-30, 2022.
A steadily growing attendance at the Nike Art Centre’s last-Sunday-of-the-month Spotlight Art and Artists Review programme lets on to the fact that it is gradually catching on with the Lagos art community. Of course, this may also have something to do with the charisma of the latest featured duo, Peju Layiwola and Peju Alatise, who are among Nigeria’s leading female contemporary artists.
We recently sat down with Nigerian-born artist and architect Peju Alatise at her new Glasgow studio to find out more about her back-to-back Venice Biennales, how she juxtaposes being a contemporary architect and fine artist, and how Yoruba culture has helped her work stand out in today’s global art world.
