Coming Home

The most recent of his creative exploits is at the Arthouse Foundation Artist Residency in Lagos, Nigeria. He has put up an exhibition aptly tagged “Coming Home” in order to properly document his efforts. It is important to stress that Victor Ekpuk is one of the few diaspora artists who constantly refills his inspirational repertoire by paying regular visits to his homecountry, Nigeria. This visitation to the source is crucial for any creative mind that draws inspiration from, his or her roots. As earlier noted, time and space often erode historical narratives, and dims memories. For a veritable sustenance of artistic imagination for the itinerant creative personalities, there is need for a regular recourse to drinking from the living spring of cultural ties.

In this home-coming in particular, Victor Ekpuk became more conscious of the need to transcend the geometric basic platforms of two-dimensional representations by adding more contours and cantilevers thereby enhancing the visual architecture of his canvases. He also began to texture some of the canvases with high relief metal protrusions which equally expand the visual aesthetics of his works. The most significant of his experiments however, is the conceptual extraction of units of motifs from his drawings and paintings and transmuting them into slender linear metal sculptures. Victor Ekpuk in this exhibition is transcending not just the physical borders of continents, but more importantly, the creative borders of two-dimensional art into the more plastic three-dimensional realities.

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