Close Looking: Queer African Art and SPIRIT
- Mark Auslander
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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-Kayod
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.
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