inspiring story about survival. the whole month to get the tennis. i was the only one who usually came nazi germany, watch now on youtube dw documentary. 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 stories, hello 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 gain independence in 1960. and today, lagos is a box sitting this pros, across for into connected pilots from the humble floating fishing community of michael coal. both bulk i saw bought a home to 6000 miller news. 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 meet ty, it, you know, wakes laws have an identity to a complex multi media works. we spend time with 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 inspire advice of bringing in a new state, the photographer, how you buy new. well creates woven photographs. be so like, oh my lady takes us into the fascinating world of knowledge and performance office . julie presents is holland jean. you were the

1st stop. it's a walk in class area of let keeping into the boss nigeria and women ahead is very complex. it is political, it is cultural. it also has historical elements. hi, it is an office when braces on the, 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. so into golden wood,

carl think, 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, i know who i, she was she from and obviously because of my head, she was glad that she was in from the african coincidence. you know, so my head became the starting point for the journey or, you know, finding this woman. so it was kind of redmond on the left. so this woman that's on known to our family type who up in building city in to see how she was influenced by local culture. the leg queen mother was referred as to was assigned the alva east. the king tide drawers upon the traditional carl beads are beginning culture and combines this with human hair to create the intricate artworks these are still very rarely bounces today. so the images that i use, by example of being a bright,

it's because they kind of copy, you know, this, them, i don't meant um that is one by the king. so i'm gonna show you the process of how the i do the layering for the whole much i'll show you my cloud draw where all my class stuff are. so there's some beats that i just cut out and then you see the hair. so this so, so the image is 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 are doing. and they make the low contributions to, to society. and usually the image that we get of women not always in this

sense of love those or do see what's, you know, nobody reads ok, bye. the important stuff we don't necessarily have. so that being the full front. but i think is important. and the people at least aware of for to of doing behind you guys have sort of the 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 i'm they, it, 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 had for the oldest supple or weekly. this is where we find the angels and music for level region. it is an awesome to beta space and it was founded by the

artist speak to a come in or the lifetime del, like. tell is also using the to create is out what the deal is. reading to preaching and disrupting symbols from childhood. dropping catholic, went to catholic schools and everything on the some of the terms of what shape of belief system that i had side by side with dr. mission, 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, i forgot to opt out of where it belongs. does we have a different many way to use it for something that is the last time. so it does that . 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 sitting mount a, he's a king domains, the king the way he will not address the . so what's in the eyes and the other off my walk is that the presence of can over i free because is what ties already walks together. that is a come on right now. you're going to see and all the world can see it here in this one here. then, you know, said india here, it wouldn't be lines because of growing up these. we had things that were on the was of the village, dental body. yes, great. and my own visual language with that big 2 is drawn on the rich legacy of traditional niger and i kind of gras fee to create its own contemporary interpretations of this patton's choice.

also an avid collector of the name bronzes sabine influences a group of several 1000 metal clocks and sculptures. they 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 beginning to date. the largest collections are to be found in britain, germany, and america. the risk due to the bidding process where we tell him to the king of the decree in 2023, where they will be the state. as long as you have been decided, i think that we as humans and to be making them as a living try to try a living culture would continue authority event itself. at every given time in

history, one of africa's biggest culture of jackson is a museum of west african aust. more currently under construction in building city which 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 lagos, you also have mentos emerging autism. i'm the photographer, i you by me. we is one of these prodigies you work with us, so we have to be careful here. yeah. i a by me is recently started creating a large scale. was land that you have been busy.

i've been trying to like work on more personal stories. okay. like you advised me speak involves the into we think of the photographs. this is my room and the been for the night actually. right? yes. is great. i love it or love it. thank you. it's almost like a hide and seek kind of fly. we have in our yeah, you kind of like you see me, you don't see me and you, i'll say man a while bach. i was in the schools kindergarten and these kids were weaving colored people. right. and i, i just have that through then i was really frustrated with the process that came to able to come up with. and i was like, oh and then somebody just told me like, oh, what if you do, you move your, your photographs, people choose fabric, us the go to 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 of the altitude from its just the identify with each other. so it could be differentiated if it could be tribal, just to a house about sense of identity with each other. but more recently of, of been 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 is talking about this business emptiness. they had raised all of their kids and everybody is not out of the house. so i photographed somebody in front of the family car and in front of the house and disability perceiving that keeping the house and in sales. what else do funding besides each other? so i'd be sense of the relationship that's this would be who the the

vendor is an oven. you for them to come together and have a conversation and be friends. they also do know tony don't. so that is what this piece is. it's all about the we are you by me and journey to the suburb of mainland to meet one of my jewish farmers. contemporary artists kind of deals, ties, analysis that i've worked with in the past. and i find his work rather intriguing either. i need to do more to, he's been very busy. oh wow. i see a let a fit go see new. what does the human body mean t o, in my walk i have synchronized a figuration on no structure them together. so the body for me,

that's 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 on the experiences of oppression. an example of this will 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 or passenger, the nigeria ministry to action against protest as in delta region. and we community members where demanded a great to shit in the long run. and nice, and i did,

i did some sketches when or by son, joe, a sense of military people to a hulu for women and for the people for the, for jobs. and i sent the customer for testing by deal, or, you know, you know, and then some where i, where have to buy this towards us. and then di escalated into something my supervisor 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 treat god this particular walk. and so it's a combination of was toppling on all the many atrocities does help when does the brought or the not every month to t is in our country. so the, so here i took a for the by trying for you from the ridges. first memories, like did, did the pictures of it been so by confident out there giving force,

you know to that. so this black is technically like, is trying to do like, is struck in it, strikes are, and then you said it was the size emphasizing to that you know, that these beautiful i know that kind be has a new projects in the works. so i offered to lend in my hand so, so you're telling me that those plots and then the surface to them about how you want to talk to so much fun and enjoying this. and also, i think there's some elemental parity in this as well. is it just play for format is no side is 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 voice, huge sending my industry called no the way it is. the 2nd largest film sector globally was, was an estimated $6400000000.00 us dollars in 2021, generating roughly $2500.00 future seals. this alone, while i 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. so the past couple says welcome to my production space. please come in, let me show you. he may do that from some of the film sense to be so not as designed. she's walked in projects such as family and crime, drama, and commercial. this is my office.

i walk in hollywood, you know, people are loving things like supernatural wrong, whole role people going on personal journeys and love behind me are. so my work that i've done, i've, i've directed on this project and i've done seduction designs and i'm working on a new project as cold, or we have to recreate one of the busiest markets in legal springs. very 90. i just a lot, silva on is very instrumental to my work. i work with lots of offices. i can do like collaborations with them and let me sit down and say ok, we're trying to create something, something different. it's something that simple into the story. the quality a lot also tells the social class of the people in the story. so when my friends

see and feel, i need to be can easily tell that i was the one who did the other direction. i'm very intentional about the way that i use on. i'm also being on quality and quantity research is for new ideas. it's nikki sees one palm to the new care act gallery, of 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 called was contemporary as well as traditional ok to keep watching the what if you want to see my with the moving not was on dw oxy africa, jamie, we're going to a huge events, the gathers offices, and collectors from across the west africa and beyond the

now with all tax the premium offset in west africa. and we're here to see the very best apart from q ratios to all to so all collectors and then please. yes. this is the place to be and they goes during the off season. so come we meet, let me show you. the very best seems it's for us that is shown in 2015. all tax is attracted, growing attendance with the local appetite ok. increasing each year the despite economic challenges and global down to the hotmail ok. as the main to resilience illegal, the

leaving behind optics. we travel an hour east to the walking class of the of the i am now about to present the office sending the proof of social media to cool is i need to nationally celebrate in multi media. ok. we use this performance to give a voice series concerns about human rights as social justice. imagine the what i mean is busy preparing for performance. oh, i them very well. so tell me about this piece. don't do these the judge

for the front 4 months, which there i tried to do. it's gully, magic queen and i just wanted to create kind of a symbolic object. the actually explain the actual and these types of glue, not a v. i tried to bring up the consequences of all feed into bone, you know, using the bone and some of the destruction without donate. so on why he was the bone and life was already gone out of that. and that's exactly what the, what the british i'm going to walls as, as a, as a people colonial nigeria was ruled by the british empire from the mid 19th century onto 19682222 queen 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 putting out isn't that was a long on during big green barrier. so i went to the pod as i saw me. those are both sides of feet. oh mary. then i was asking, what is some question about those? see actually represent giovanni. think the idea of humanity. denise, all the impactful performance is the museum is the colonial master. and in it, it transforms himself into a trick. stuffy good will reenact. so ritual in which is smashes the glass, these young display cabinets to liberate a traditional figurine. so

why did you choose performance as a medium dump that performance as a medium? because it's a lot of organic, oh and it is also to penetrate into the psyche of my or do you is it is like the commercial you be able to step back into a few because best of what's impossible to you. sorry to bug 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 read the pod from de leon head to the waterfront. i'm reflecting on how the artist b, a c o, reading to preaching nigerian culture with post colonial confidence. and part of the brings us to the end of the w's off the africa with law for lego. the,

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