Marcia Kure : Conformity

2 May-31 May 2014

Overview

Having recently completed a residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Marcia Kure has produced works that form part of her first exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery – also her first solo show in the UK. Marcia Kure is a prominent member of the University of Nigeria-based Nsukka School, known for its combination of lyrical simplicity and socio-political vision. Her recent drawing, photomontage and sculptures imagine alternative worlds. They are a critical response to the postcolonial existential condition. Through appropriation and reconfiguration of normative fashion aesthetic, classic juvenile literature, African masking forms, and children's toys, she produces hybrid, darkly striking images and objects that insinuate postmodern loss of certainties and postcolonial destabilization and fragmentation of identities.