This season, Lagos will be treated to the opening reception of “Mistakes I Chose to Keep” a solo exhibition by Edozie Anedu curated by Wunika Mukan. The exhibition opens 2pm, Saturday, December 21 at 16/16 Kofo Abayomi St. Victoria Island, Lagos, and will run till Monday, 20 January 2020.
Born and raised in Benin City, Edozie Anedu is a self-taught artist whose style focuses on the human condition, socio political ideologies and pop-culture. Working primarily with oils on canvas and recyclable materials, Edozie employs an aggressive use of color with ill- drawn figures to express emotion, initiate conversation and catch attention.
Edozie’s childlike and sometimes aggressive strokes make room for accidents and give his paintings that unique, seemingly effortlessly haphazard appearance.
His current show consists of 18 new works – most of them formerly discarded, reworked pieces that lend their name to the exhibition title- Mistakes I Chose to Keep. Each piece telling a coming of age story – a journey of excitement, adjustments and hopeful rush to the future – while at the same time embracing moments of melancholy and memories of past people, places and things.
