as we say, they're about never getting up every weekend on d w. the welcome to lagos, the come on the capital of my country. nigeria may go is the coastal cities situated on the shores of west africa, the items you look at. so as i'm a visual storyteller and culture for dcf, let me show you my city the mega, the population of roughly 50000000 people,

which makes it the biggest city in africa. nigeria broke free from british colonial when we gained independence in 1960 on today. lagos is a box cities this pro, across for into connected islands from the humble floating fishing community of michael coal. both bulk i saw bought a home to $6000.00 miller news in us $1.10 and after dock we knew how to have a good time the over the years i've documented my city to art and culture of adoption

today. i'm very excited to present last history. amazing was in the city of legal coming up in this episode of dw oxy africa. we may tie it though, wakes laws have an identity to a complex multi media works. we spend time would kind of deal so high. it was a reach paintings that created across texted metal surfaces speak to a come in or shows us as icon a graphic works in spy advice or bringing in a new state the photographer. are you buying you? who creates woven photographs? be so like, oh my lady takes us into this fascinating world of knowledge and performance office . julie, i think, who presents is holland. you knew what the

1st stop is the walking class area of nikki, pending the foss, niger and women ahead is very complex. it is political, it is cultural. it also has historical elements. hi, it is an office when braces of you know, work the hey, sorry, i was this looks to me. i think i'm just getting ready to start on the collage. the tires visual language consist of depicting strengths of human hair or into golden

wood. carl link . why did you decide to approach your work? you know, from this perspective, it was really because of my own hair is on my 1st so exhibition. have hulu. so, and it was about kind of seeking out my put so now grandmother. but using has the starting point to go. she's on known to my family and then i'm left with this quailey's own head that is unique to me. ties. it is different from many of the nigerian women. as a child tie was often told that she must have inherited i have from my grandmother . the older tie has pictures of all the family members. she knows nothing about her father's a mother the and it was about kind of seeking out my put so now

grandmother or you know, who i, she where, what she from on obviously because of my head, she was clear that she was in, from the, from the ground coincidence, you know, so my head became the starting point for the journey or, you know, finding this woman so it was kind of run me in on the left. so this woman that's on known. so i found many time i grew up in building city in to see how she was influenced by local culture of the lake. queen mother was referred as to was assigned to all the east. the king tied drawers upon the traditional carl beads of building culture and combines this with human hair to create the intricate artworks, beads as they were very rarely advances today. so the images that i use,

for example, of being a bright is because they kind of copy, you know, this, them, i don't meant and as one by the king. so i'm gonna show you the process of how the i do the layering so much. i'll show you my cloud draw where all my class stuff. ok. so there's some beads that i just cut out and then you see the hair. so this, so some of the images i'm gonna cut the amount due on a caught something i was not sure that i want to try my hand to the side of things for man i've always been in doug's lights where we're constantly doing stuff in the back which is why, for me is very important so that i can tell women stories because there's a lot that women doing and they make a little contribution to, to society. and usually the image that we get of women not always in this

sense of model. oh, so you see, once you know, nobody reads ok bye. the inputs on itself, we don't necessarily have to like be in the forefront, but i think is and thoughts on the people at least aware of for to a doing behind you guys. absolutely. yeah. so this is in a way an acknowledgement of women's role and also importance is yeah. empower, empower. yes. my time we tie as me reflecting on how it works might be so many laid, but they carry their own quiet power of women stories in what is often a male dominated to get started by from ties place. we travel east across the famous lucky bridge. i, we've had for the oldest several or because we this is where we find the angels and music 4 level, which is an awesome to beta space. and it was founded by the artist

speak to you come in on the lifetime. del victo is also using the to create is out what the key is waiting to pretty take on disrupting symbols from childhood and dropping catholic, went to catholic schools and everything. and then some of the times of what shape or belief system that i had side by side with dr. young. i'm growing up in the village. it's something that i've been finding it out with all my life. but if you take a try this on a african odd out of where he belongs, does he have a different many way to use it for something that is the last time. so those are the 2 things that i'm kind of like working with. when i started using these are

pieces and we look at them, what i'm seeing now is the king domains, the king, the way he will not address the . so what's in the eyes and the letter of my walk is that the presence of i can know graphing because it's what ties already walks together that they come on right now. you're going to see in all the world, the can see it here in this one here. then, you know, said india here. if one of the lines, because of growing up this, we had things that were on the was of the village. daniel's ideas created my own visual language. would that be to, is drawn on the rich legacy of traditional niger, an icon, a, grassy, to create its own contemporary interpretations of this patterns.

the toys also an avid collector of being bronzes. meaningful on says a group of several 1000 metal clocks and sculptures that used to decorate the royal palace in the kingdom of the name in what is today known as a those states, the nigeria in 1897 british troops, remove them from the name and to date, the largest collections are to be found in britain, germany, and to america. the risk due to the bidding process very tell him to the king of the name. by decree in 2023, where they will be displayed as might have been decided. and i think that we as humans and to be making them as a living try to try a living culture with continuing story event. it says at every given time in

history, one of africa's biggest culture of all texas is a museum of west african out more currently under construction in the city with 70 percent of nigerians. on the 3rd, this museum will be a cultural center with a full cost on contemporary ok to inspire the next generations victim exhibits internationally anyhow, studios in the united states of america and in lagos. he also mentos emerging autism. i'm the photographer, are you by me? we is one of these prodigies you work with vapor, so we have to be careful here. yeah. i oh, by me is recently started creating a large scale. what the you have been busy.

i've been trying to like work on more personal stories. okay. like you advised me safely involves the into we think of photographs, this is my room and i've been putting my diet right. this is great. i love it or love it. thank you. it's almost like a hide and seek kind of flag waving on our yeah. like kind of like you see me, you don't see me and you don't see me awhile. bach. i was in the schools kindergarten and these kids were weaving colored people. right. and i just have that to that. i was really frustrated with the process but came to able to come up with, i know it's like, oh and then somebody just totally like, oh what if you do? you move your, your photographs people choose from us the good 2 months. you'll be able to identify with each other if you're very familiar with the design of tools because by such a business, by the end, it's like at no cost. right?

and then we have this situation where people choose the sprint vibrate and then the, the cost to be altered from it's just the identify with each other. so it could be differentiate if it could be tribal, just to have about sense of identity with each other. more resend me, of of being like, pull myself more into my work. and so i went back home to my parents house where i was raised losing my data. my mom did something about this business emptiness. they had raised all of their kids and everybody is not out of a house. so i photographs of them in front of the family car. and in front of the house and the space you could see them that keeping the house to themselves. but after standing beside each other, so i'd be sense of the relationship. taxes would be who the

the so and there was an oven. you for them to come together and have a conversation and be friends. they also do not turn it down. so that is what this piece is. it's all about the need are you by me and journey to the suburb of new england to meet one of the jews formless contemporary artist kindly of your size analysis that i've worked with in the past. and i find his work rather intriguing. i the, he's been very busy. oh wow. i see a little stickers see new. what does the human body mean t o, in my walk i have synchronized the sugars shown on our structure them together. so

the body for me is where all the human falls lives so that you can wear their body to the he my story as a graphic, artist and painter. kind of these are the focuses on human subjects and the experiences of oppression. an example of this would be the events that took place in the town to 14 in the delta region. 14 is rich with all white is also pool and polluted. the delta region lives in south of nigeria. in november 1991 under the seat of president of passenger, the nigeria ministry to action against protest as in delta region. and we community members where demanded a way to share in the world. and nice and i did. i did some sketches when or by

son, joe, a sense of ministry people to a hit is that women are for the people for the, for jobs i sent the customer protesting 5 deal or, you know, in on them and some where i, where have to buy this or does, and then die escalated into something must survive, then decided to kill this man. to this coach from the 1st pension i made, it was about 40 and nights and night, and i, she got this particular walk. and so that's it. combination of was toppling on all the many atrocities does help when does the brought or the not of your mind. so she is in our country today. so here i took a for the by trying for you when you raise 1st memories like did, did the pictures of it. and so by confident out there giving force,

you know to that. so this black has to check if you like, is trying to do like is struck and it strikes are and then you said it was the size and emphasizing to that you know, that these beautiful i know the kind be has a new projects in the works so i offered to lend me my hand so, so you're telling me that i'm kind of those plots and on the surface of in a box, let's see how you want to talk to so much fun and enjoying this. and also i think there's some element of parity in this as well. is it just play for format versus no, that is all think i can double up as the assistant leaving behind kindly be dw oxy africa. johnny now takes is downtown weather,

streets of legal. so often used for film shoot nigeria is known for its huge, sending my industry cold know the way it is. the 2nd largest film sector globally on was watson estimate is $6400000000.00 us dollars in 2021, generating roughly 2500 feet just seals. this alone, my last day is a well known production design to put in a visual stand on the screen. we travel to the suburb of my go to where i'd be solar past office. welcome to my production space. please come in. let me show you . you may do that from some of the film sets that be so not as designed. she's walked in projects such as family and crime, dramas, and commercial. this is my office.

i walk in hollywood. you know, people are loving things like supernatural role, whole role people going on personal journeys and logs behind me are. so my work that i've done, i've, i've directed on this project and i've done production designs, and then i'm working on a new project is called, or we have to recreate one of the busiest markets a legal, this thing's very 90 i just a lot. so much, and it's very instrumental to my what i work with lots of offices. i couldn't do like, collaborations with them. and let me sit down to get out and say ok, we're trying to create something. something different, something that simple into the story. the quality a lot of details,

the social class of the people in the story. so when my friends see and they feel more i need add because it's easily tell that i was the one who did the ad direction and very intentional about the way that i use odd. i'm also be doing policy. i'm not going to see you still know research is for new ideas of lucky face, one home to the new care act gallery, to the biggest ad gallery in west africa. and that'd be, so that comes here to find pieces for a films from this collection, which covers contemporary as well as traditional cox to keep watching. in other words, if you want to see my with the moving not was on dw oxy africa, jamie, we're going to a huge events that gathers artists and collectors from across the west africa and

beyond the now with all the premium offset in west africa. and we're here to see the very best apart from q ratios to all to, to all collectors. and then please, yes, this is the place to be and they goes during the off season. so can we meet? let me show you the very best seems it's for us that is shown in 2015 all types of attractive glowing attendance with the local appetite for aut, increasing each year. the dislike economic challenges and global down to the hotmail ok as remain resilient illegal. the

optics we travel in our east to the walking class. so both of the are now about to present the office sending the professional jelia to cool is that need to nationally celebrate in multi media. ok. we use this performance to give a voice to these concerns about human rights as social justice. imagine the what i mean is busy preparing for performing. okay. all right. okay, i'm very well. so tell me about this piece. this is what i'll build judge for the

platform on which there i tried to do. it's got like magic queen. i'm trying to create kind of a symbolic object the actually explain the actual on the sides of glued 90 v. i trying to bring up the consequences of all feed into bone, you know, using the bone and some of the destruction without the only 2 on why you use the bone and life was already gone out of the valley. what the, what the british i'm going to was as, as a, as a people colonial and i do. it was ruled by the british empire from the mid 19th century onto 1960, the 82222 treated elizabeth. the 2nd was buried. and this event inspired charity to create a performance piece that is the critique on the complex relationship. then i do as to has for the united kingdom called do not be garlic near the queen.

the that'll be queen is actually the death of queen that isn't. that was a long on during big green barrier as i went through the pot. as i saw me, those are both sides of fioma that i was asking was some question about those. see actually represent giovanni. think the idea of humanity deleting all the impactful performance is the museum is a colonial master. and in it, it transformed himself into a trick stuffy good will reenact. so ritual in which is smashes the glass pcm display cabinet to liberate a traditional figurine. so

why do you choose performance as a medium? i dumped it performance as a medium because it's vulnerable gunny coal on. it is also to penetrate into the psyche of my or do you is it is like the commercial. how did you be able to stop? begin to feel the context of what's impossible to you. so it's about connectedness . it's about one this. yeah, it's also about the embodied memory here, is that the body diaries as well. yeah. i see soon. thank you so much, bye bye. as we depart from de leon head to the waterfront, i'm reflecting on how the all to see a c o reading to preaching niger and culture with post colonial confidence and part of the trains us to the end of the w's off the africa with law for lego, the,

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