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This event is in the past.It took place on January 3, 2026 at AFIKARIS Gallery.

And We Hired a Carpenter to Patch the Cloth 1
Decorative Exhibition
And We Hired a Carpenter to Patch the Cloth 2

And We Hired a Carpenter to Patch the Cloth

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Charcoal sculptures that transform colonial mining trauma into acts of repair and resistance. Nigerian artist Eva Obodo binds charcoal fragments with copper wire to revisit Africa's extractive history, including his own father's survival of the 1949 Enugu massacre. The Nsukka school tradition continues here as material becomes language, memory, and defiance.

Contemporary African art
Postcolonial themes
Mining history
Material experimentation

Tips

🎁look for pieces wrapped like gifts (concealment metaphor)
⛏️his father survived the 1949 Enugu mining massacre
🧵"We dey patch am" — Nigerian phrase about making do

AFIKARIS Gallery

7 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris, France

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