Artist Talk with Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Cake

Fridman Gallery is honored to present Cake, Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s first solo exhibition in New York. Ogunji works in drawing, painting, performance, and video. The exhibition includes new drawings and a site-specific thread installation, accompanied by a selection of the artist's early video works.

 

In many of her drawings Ogunji explores water as architecture – lagoons rendered in ink, stitched lines of a river, or the empty space of the paper itself (an imagined expanse of sea). The work also often develops around language. As the artist creates, titles emerge and become the structure determining the form of the pieces.