not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour
Galleria Federico Vavassori•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 30, 2025
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A kilo of toxicity. A badly missed shot. Menial walls closing in. Plinths of the mundane.
not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour is an infrastructure for inversion where the peripheral seizes the center. Street-born objects, discarded materials, and industrial remnants charged with pop culture and mass media are reassembled, recontextualized, and reborn. Trash made pristine, utility made dubious, worth made questionable. In Dozie Kanu’s hands, these sculptural interventions unravel the logic of value, function, and what deserves presence in public and private space, critiquing both late capitalism and the art world’s fetish for the overlooked.
Rooted in post-industrial heritage and African diasporic narratives, Kanu’s practice grapples with a fundamental tension in Black cultural production: the fluid, dematerialized expressions of music, dance, sport, and digital discourse versus the weight of Black pictorial literacy in physical resistant space. Here, Black…
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not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour
Galleria Federico Vavassori•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 30, 2025
Press Release
A kilo of toxicity. A badly missed shot. Menial walls closing in. Plinths of the mundane.
not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour is an infrastructure for inversion where the peripheral seizes the center. Street-born objects, discarded materials, and industrial remnants charged with pop culture and mass media are reassembled, recontextualized, and reborn. Trash made pristine, utility made dubious, worth made questionable. In Dozie Kanu’s hands, these sculptural interventions unravel the logic of value, function, and what deserves presence in public and private space, critiquing both late capitalism and the art world’s fetish for the overlooked.
Rooted in post-industrial heritage and African diasporic narratives, Kanu’s practice grapples with a fundamental tension in Black cultural production: the fluid, dematerialized expressions of music, dance, sport, and digital discourse versus the weight of Black pictorial literacy in physical resistant space. Here, Black…
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