Close Looking: Queer African Art and SPIRIT
- Paul Emmanuel
- Mar 24
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 24
These works explore spirit in queer African art through ritual, transcendence, and movement between worlds.
They evoke connections between the physical and the unseen, opening space for transformation, memory, and presence.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Every Moment Counts (Ecstatic Antibodies) (1989)
Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s Every Moment Counts (Ecstatic Antibodies) draws on Yoruba and Christian iconography to explore spirituality, intimacy, and the body as a site of transformation.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Nothing to Lose IX (Bodies of Experience) (1989)
In Nothing to Lose IX, Fani-Kayode stages a charged encounter between body and spirit, where desire, ritual, and transcendence converge.
Paul Maheke
Ancestral Muse I (night blue and sodium brown) (2023)
Paul Maheke’s Ancestral Muse I explores the body as a threshold between visible and invisible worlds, where memory, spirit, and identity remain in motion.
Arvin Ombika
Juxtaposition of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis (2023)
A luminous painting that places the artist’s own body within a sacred and multicultural visual world shaped by faith, history, and coexistence.
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