The Obas – Hyphenated
2017
Installation, repurposed clothing, board, wire, acrylic, used Victorian rug, used lamp and table
Dimensions: Variable dimension

Fabricated from repurposed clothing, the dresses reference the late nineteenth century royal court styles of the European nations that colonized Africa. And a series of constructed headdresses inspired by African traditional headdresses.
This headpiece replaces the heads of the figures, thus creating a hybridized or syncretic collapse between 19th century Western and African mythology.