A standout piece from the exhibition, and one that holds special significance for Obasi, is an image of a muse on a pedestal titled. “That portrait really encapsulates where I am in my career right now as a photographer who is trying to move between art and fashion to say something,” he says. The portrait brings to life the metaphorical concept of cards of power and who holds them. “It represents how decisions that impact a huge populace are made in this small corner by a select group of people.
Obasi’s interest in art and visual escapism is something he has carried with him since childhood. He started his career as a fashion stylist, but growing up, it was local literature that inspired him more than household designers or haute couture runways. He’d get lost in the imaginative worlds of sci-fi comics and fantasy novels and spend hours discovering the works of local writers. “I love literature, especially local literature. I used it as a way to escape reality as a child.
Among a new generation of fashion, music and art talents rising from Africa, Obasi has a front-row seat to the creative revolution taking place on the continent – in fact, he saw it coming before most. “None of us here in Africa were trying to create this huge explosion of international acclaim with fashion or music or anything. We were just expressing ourselves the way we always have done and because of the talent we have here.
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