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PHILIP

PHILIP

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Nana Yaw Oduro

Nana Yaw Oduro is based in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. He started photographing in 2015 while studying marketing at the University of Ghana. In his compositions, friends, and models that he thinks “look and can act as me” enact the artist’s inner emotions, creating biographical representations rather than self-portraits. “I aim to capture my own emotions through my subjects since most of what I shoot is very personal,” he has said. Oduro’s titles are very important to the works and add to their poetic and personal nature. His work addresses boyhood, male adolescence, and masculinity in dreamlike, expressive images. The male body is often represented sculpturally, presented in high contrast to the environment or brightly colored objects, and is often placed in the landscape. In his images, man and nature are seen as co-existent.
Artist
Nana Yaw Oduro
(Ghanaian, b. 1994)
Title
PHILIP
Date
2019
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
19 5/8 x 29 1/2 in. image
Credit
Sara Guyer and Scott Straus Contemporary African Art Initiative made possible by the Straus Family Foundation
Accession No.
2021.28.3
Classification
Photographs
Geography
Ghana

Related

2021, sold by the Afikaris Gallery (Paris, France) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection." Madison, WI: Regents to the University of Wisconsin System and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023. p. 59, cat. no. 23

  • Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 9/5/2023–12/23/2023

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