Fridman Gallery brought work by an artist to watch. Wura-Natasha Ogunji is an American-born artist of Nigerian descent who relocated to Lagos with a Guggenheim Fellowship, where she also created the independent exhibition space Treehouse, building a community around performance art as an essential tool of empowerment for local women. Moving between her curatorial, community practice, anthropological observations, performance and visual languages, the artist's recent works are constellations of architectural traces and body fragments that question the notion of displacement and spatial perception. Some of her works, as she explains, "consider both the geographic and psychic distance between Africa and the Americas to speak about the possibilities that this immense Atlantic separation might allow." The artist participated both as curator and artist at the Saõ Paolo Biennale in 2022 and was included at the last Sydney Biennale, and her works can be found in significant museum collections such as the ones of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian African Art Museum and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Still, her works are reasonably priced at the Armory Show at between $8,000 and $20,000.
