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About Ayobola Kekere-Ekun
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993) is a Nigerian contemporary visual artist. Kekere-Ekun finished a degree in Graphic Design at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka in 2009 and also received her Master's Degree in the same field in 2016. She is the Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts at the University of Lagos. As of 2022, Kekere-Ekun was finishing her Ph.D., which started in 2018, in Art and Design at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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βAll artists should stay true to themselves.β
βYou can tell a lot from a personβs eyes. The eyes offer a mutual vulnerability.β
βI think I was drowning because Iβve spent my entire life internalizing everything that has ever happened to me.β
βThereβs something very humbling or rewarding in people whom Iβve never met, finding a connection with what I have to say.β
βI do not. She legally belonged to the school, because she was an exam piece. So technically, she wasn't mine. So I never got to actually keep her.β
βBut I donβt treat it like a craft. I treat it no differently than if I was sculpting or making an installation. Itβs just another way to tell the story.β
βLike, itβs not an easy career. I could have been an accountant. It would have sucked and Iβd be bored and miserable! It would probably be easier. But here I am.β
βMaybe they're a combination of all the women I've known and all the women I wish I knew. Except for newest body of work where I'm drawing on my family's history. Those pieces feel far more personal.β
βI'm curious what she would make of the world now. I mean, considering the British Empire's history and whatnot. Also, I just find her interesting as an individual. So it would be two for the price of one.β
βI think the glint is the physical activation of the rest of the intuition that went into the work. An expression of my inability to explain why Iβve made certain choices, while knowing they were the right choices to make.β
βThere are few things as glaring as dishonest work. If you donβt value your point of view, no one else will. Thereβs something very humbling or rewarding in people whom Iβve never met, finding a connection with what I have to say.β
βMy sister has this theory that I'm making a self-portrait over and over again. But I've told her she's not a critic or historian, so I donβt have to listen to her to her. If she gets her theory publishes, then I'll take her seriously.β
About Ayobola Kekere-Ekun
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993) is a Nigerian contemporary visual artist. Kekere-Ekun finished a degree in Graphic Design at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka in 2009 and also received her Master's Degree in the same field in 2016. She is the Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts at the University of Lagos. As of 2022, Kekere-Ekun was finishing her Ph.D., which started in 2018, in Art and Design at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.