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    • Ndidi Dike, In the Guise of Resource Control

    July 1 - 22 2017
    Opening on July 1st, from 4 to 9 pm

    Ndidi Dike, In the Guise of Resource Control, 2017, © Ndidi Dike

    Current recip­ient of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship and artist-in-res­i­dence Ndidi Dike pre­sents a new body of work pro­duced in Paris for In The Guise of Resource Control, the first solo exhi­bi­tion to take place at Villa Vassilieff since it opened in February 2016.
    The instal­la­tion traces nar­ra­tives related to pre-and post-colo­nial poli­cies of con­trol of nat­ural and human resources in Africa. Its sculp­tures uti­lize mate­rials that have metaphor­ical res­o­nance, engaging in a dia­logue with the archi­tec­tural space of Villa Vassilieff, thereby inviting viewers to con­sider the impli­ca­tions of African dias­pora within a global con­text. They demon­strate the neces­sity of decon­structing the social, eco­nomic and polit­ical com­plex­i­ties of issues such as cit­i­zen­ship, iden­tity, the status of refugees, and migra­tion.

    Ndidi Dike (b. London 1960), spent her early years in England, She studied painting, majoring in mixed media painting in the University of Nigeria Nsukka where she obtained a BA degree in 1984. She is a visual artist working in a variety of media including instal­la­­tion, sculp­­ture, mixed media painting and more recently lense based media and video. Teaching her­­self to sculpt, she has estab­lished her­­self as one of the leading con­tem­po­rary artists working on the con­ti­­nent, with well over a decade of tran­s­­gres­­sive sculp­­tural prac­tice. In 2004 she revis­ited painting in her work : her pro­fes­­sional method­­ology is to locate the appro­priate artistic strategy that best suits the sub­­­ject of con­tem­­pla­­tion at that moment.. In order to do so, she uses her research of a par­tic­ular theme or topic. These themes include slavery, con­­sumerism, glob­al­iza­­­tion, urbanism, Nigerian visual cul­­ture, art his­­tory, cross border/country migra­­tion, multi cul­­tur­alism, post-colo­­nial, studies, iden­tity and con­tem­po­rary pol­i­tics. She runs a pro­fes­­sional studio in Lagos and has exhib­ited inter­­na­­tion­ally.