Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss the work of Ghanian-born artist El Anatsui, one of Africa’s most celebrated contemporary sculptors.

In March 2019, Professor Okeke-Agulu co-curated El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich – perhaps the largest solo show of a black African artist in Europe.  Okeke-Agulu’s talk, El Anatsui’s Metamorphic Objects, will discuss the show, while also examining the ontological and epistemic orders that inform our understanding of El Anatsui’s shape-shifting, monumental metal sculptures.

Professor Okeke-Agulu is Professor of African and African Diaspora Art at Princeton University. His recent books include Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria (2015), Obiora Udechukwu: Line. Image. Text (2018), and Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (2020).