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Mimi Koku

Mimi Koku, Irin Ajo (Time, Space, Spirit Travel & The Poetics of Possibility), 2023, Video Still.
Mimi Koku, Irin Ajo (Time, Space, Spirit Travel & The Poetics of Possibility), 2023, Video Still.
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.
 

‘I Heard A Sound That Carries’ (2023) interweaves sound, nature, movement, language and concepts of non linear temporality – illustrating how subjectivity can become reconstructed, existentially, through decolonial, non-linear & non-traditional forms.

Mimi Koku is a Nigerian-born interdisciplinary artist and musician working in the UK and Nigeria. Employing the moving image, sound, ceramics and nature, she investigates both personal & communal archives & histories, indigenous Yoruba cosmologies & philosophies, mythology & spirituality, as well as concepts of temporal fluidity.
 
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Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023

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