Azuka Muoh
Azuka Muoh is one of Africa’s most interesting and provoking artists. Her millennial status ensures her lens on the world is sharp, offering deep critique and reflection on life as a young female Nigerian, in a deeply complex society that embraces artistic development, whilst retaining an ever-present awareness of cultural and familial expectations. Muoh’s digitally and mixed media rendered multiple composition portraits are surrealist in nature and hyperbolized reflections of personal experience and indeed societal constraints– one could also say that there is an influence into Afrofuturism, the Sci-Fi influenced African diaspora art and music movement that evolved in the 1990’s. Patriarchal oppression, political reflection and the state of the human condition are shared departure points in these intense reflections – the results are beautifully rendered imagery, often in easily digestible tones, but reflecting hard hitting subject matter. Muoh’s intention lies in challenging long held societal norms, in a space where tradition has reigned for centuries.
Muoh sees herself as being a powerful mouthpiece for the marginalized and in a world where oppression is rife in so many forms, from gender-based abuse and violence, to systemic patriarchal maltreatment, her portraits are a very real commentary. The fact that her work is deeply autobiographical adds another layer of significance to each piece – her relative youth is equally of interest because there is no doubt that as time tempers her life experience, so too will her art continue to intrigue and challenge the status quo. Using the language of the Instagram generation, her words “we are influencers of the thought processes of society,” feel like a sharp prediction from one of the continent’s most exciting talents.
Country • Nigeria
Medium • mixed media on canvas
First exhibition with christopher moller gallery • 2022
EXPLORE HER WORK
in conversation with azuka Muoh
Previous exhibitions by Azuka Muoh
2023
STORE IN A COOL DRY PLACE, Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. - Solo Exhibition
RMB LATITUDES ART FAIR, Christopher Moller Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. - Group Exhibition
2022
HARMATTAN HAS COME, Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. - Solo Exhibition
AUTUMN IS FRESH, Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. - Group exhibition.
INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR, Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2021
FRAMING HER, Gaia Africa Club, Lagos, Nigeria – Group exhibition.
UBER ART INSTALLATION, Uber Headquarters, London – Group exhibition.
2020
THE STORIES WE TELL, What If Hub, Lagos Nigeria - Group exhibition.