Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
IRIN AJO, 2023
Multi-channel digital video and sound installation, 14 min loop and 7 min loop.
IRIN AJO posits the embrace of a “Yoruba world sense” in a sonic and spirit-led voyage across time, space and the archives - oscillating through and between the “real” and the “mythological” against the backdrop of a future, past and present-day Lagos, Nigeria.
Multi-channel digital video and sound installation, 14 min loop and 7 min loop.
IRIN AJO posits the embrace of a “Yoruba world sense” in a sonic and spirit-led voyage across time, space and the archives - oscillating through and between the “real” and the “mythological” against the backdrop of a future, past and present-day Lagos, Nigeria.
Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
Mimi Koku, IRIN AJO, 2023, multi-channel digital video and sound installation.
Mimi Koku is a Nigerian-born interdisciplinary artist, researcher and musician working in the UK and Nigeria. Her practice employs the moving image, sound, sculpture and performance, through which she reflects on both personal and communal archives and histories, Black feminist theory and indigenous African cosmology. Combined with her love of nature, fantasy, technology and design, her work culminates in a multi-sensory and poetic yet critical and de-colonial praxis.
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Mimi Koku, I Heard A Sound That Carries, 2023, Video Still.
I Heard A Sound That Carries, 2023
Multi-channel video and sound installation, dimensions variable.
I heard a sound that carries.
Crosses planes, a sonic wave kinetic and potential.
An ancient divination.
I wander, dance along its coils in search of mothers’ gardens.
With body, breath and voice to move -
Polyrhythms, circles turning,
winds and words and hands - in earth, turned over.
They spoke to drums to summon gods; I hope to summon futures
And memories and wishes too.
With time, a place somewhere between and hopeful blooms.
What was and is and will become;
A song of many voices.
First shown as part of the Folded Eight Times exhibition at APT Gallery, March 2023
Multi-channel video and sound installation, dimensions variable.
I heard a sound that carries.
Crosses planes, a sonic wave kinetic and potential.
An ancient divination.
I wander, dance along its coils in search of mothers’ gardens.
With body, breath and voice to move -
Polyrhythms, circles turning,
winds and words and hands - in earth, turned over.
They spoke to drums to summon gods; I hope to summon futures
And memories and wishes too.
With time, a place somewhere between and hopeful blooms.
What was and is and will become;
A song of many voices.
First shown as part of the Folded Eight Times exhibition at APT Gallery, March 2023
Mimi Koku, I Heard A Sound That Carries, 2023. Installation view at APT Gallery, London.
Mimi Koku, I Heard A Sound That Carries, 2023. Installation view at APT Gallery, London.
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023
Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023