MARCIA KURE

Marcia Kure is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores post-colonial existentialist conceptions and identities. For Southern Kaduna is a four part series named after Kure's home state in north-western Nigeria. Ethnic and religious tensions in the region have recently been brought to a flashpoint by an ever-worsening climate crisis. This diminishing access to land and its use has fractured communities already burdened by post-colonialism. Kure acknowledges these multivalent systems of struggle and purpose in a series of collaged figures assembled from ethnographic auction catalogues, calendars, images torn from fashion magazines, and colonial-era photography.

"I came to collage via drawing. When trying to solve a drawing problem, I realized I could cut the shapes around a form or figure, combining them to create new interactions and narratives, dis/unity, tension and friction. Line is activated where the cut and the image meet. For me, the emphasis has always been on line - and the images the cut shapes contain." — Marcia Kure