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"Mokoena began this work after spending six months mapping the routes her family travelled during the forced removals of the 1960s."
art · Johannesburg, South Africa
Cartography of Kin
Lebo Mokoena
FAACCE Curated
Songs of the Iroko
Lagos, Nigeria
- Medium
- Oil and indigo on linen
- Dimensions
- 180 × 140 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Certificate
- FA-2024-0041 →
$ 14,800
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Story behind the work
Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders. The iroko, sacred across the Yoruba world, is rendered here not as botany but as kin: an inheritance of breath and memory passed quietly between generations.
A monumental study in indigo and ochre, layered with hand-ground pigment, fixing the iroko at the precise moment between dusk and ancestor.
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