REVIEW
Women warriors
fighters
protection
metal shields
disturbing situations
African revenge
spiritual presence
A voice
Title Guns Teasing Suicide
photography Vanley Burke
Sokari Douglas-Camp's sculptures are resonance of a woman’s voice and affirmation of a political struggle that echoes through her country of birth. Their spiritual presence of strong West African Women protesting against the injustices of man, not excluding the West’s appropriation of oil, leaving behind a painful background of oil flares burning in the delta regions of Nigeria; consequently destroying its environment and its community. This is not only a Nigerian experience but an experience throughout Africa, which in turn affects the world, but is often ignored. The fact that Douglas-Camp’s sculptures are a testament to Saro-Wiwa’s fight, a series of documentaries on Ken Saro-Wiwa, Fela Kuti, his son Femi Kuti and expressions by artists gave an important perspective into a political disturbance that is ongoing. This exhibition shows powerful and intricately worked metal sculptures.
