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MARCIA KURE
For Southern Kaduna I – Grief, A Many Feathered Thing, 2017-2020Collage, 23.75 k gold on digital archival print photograph37 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. Sheet
43 3/8 x 30 3/8 in. FrameCopyright The Artist$ 12,000.00Marcia 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....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 KureExhibitions
"Hybridish," curated by Alistair Hicks, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, AT, 5 September 2020 - 3 October 2020