Sokey Edorh
Mixed media painting
September 4th – October 11th, 2008
Skoto Gallery
Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Metamorphosis, an exhibition of mixed media paintings by the Togolese-born artist Sokey Edorh. This will be his first solo exhibition in New York City and the reception is on Thursday, September 4th, 6-8pm.
Sokey Edorh’s mixed media paintings consistently balance the dual purposes of visually powerful imagery and intellectually critical analysis to make poignant commentaries on contemporary African social and political realities. His artistic production is constantly informed by the need to work through the implications of language, symbolic systems, and communicative abstraction. He uses an elaborately conceived symbolic alphabet system, invented by him and nurtured within the compass of history, both directly and allegorically throughout his work. The text, which he alone can decipher, draws inspiration from the ideograms that are found on the dwellings of the Dogon hunters in Mali, West Africa, and used in rapturous poetry that are addressed to the harvest gods as divine litany like that of the ancient Egyptians to their gods. To the artist, it is a fit metaphor for the liberation of oneself from dictatorial systems that forbid free expression.
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