Collection nkụkọ na égwū (Machine-Threads-Playing) from Amarachi Okafor (Orie) | Artwork Archive

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Collection: nkụkọ na égwū (Machine-Threads-Playing)

nkụkọ na égwū: Machine-Threads-Playing
Investigating Painting through play, gesture, and stitch

She Laughs at the Future by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

She Laughs at the Future, 2022

Fabric offcuts, Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Recovered used plastic bag, Adhesive, Electric wire, Pastel on Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

32 x 195 x 7 cm

(12.6 x 76.77 x 2.76 in)

How to be Poor in the Head by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

How to be Poor in the Head, 2020

Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Fabric, Text, Acrylic

78 x 105 x 3 cm

(30.71 x 41.34 x 1.18 in)

Unction of the Spirit by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Unction of the Spirit, 2006 - 2019

Fabric offcuts, Twine ropes, Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Used plastic pegs, Acrylic on canvas

(46.06 x 37.8 in)

How to Frame and Please Six Women at Once by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

How to Frame and Please Six Women at Once, 2019

Fabric offcuts, Used plastic bags on Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

(13.78 x 60.24 in)

Herdsmen Bagged by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Herdsmen Bagged, 2017-2019

Bag, basket, copper-wire, synthetic, leather, fabric, wood, metal rings wires, and metal pole

144 x 85 x 22 cm

(56.69 x 33.46 x 8.66 in)

Bright Room: Illuminate by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Bright Room: Illuminate, 2019

Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants), Fabric, Pastel, Thread

(38.58 x 38.58 in)

Joy Pots for the Universe, 2017 by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Joy Pots for the Universe, 2017, 2017

Fabric offcuts, Used stamps, Thread, Charcoal on stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

(39.37 x 39.37 in)

Look Up and Feel Good by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Look Up and Feel Good, 2016

Fabric offcuts, Used stamps, Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Thread, Acrylic on Stemspaper (handmade paper from local plants)

(39.37 x 42.13 in)

Substance And Emptiness by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Substance And Emptiness, 2004-2022

Fabric offcuts, Wood, Twine ropes, Used plastic pegs, Acrylic on canvas

(38.98 x 76.57 in)

Precision by Amarachi Okafor (Orie)

Precision, 2015

Recovered cigarette filters (cork/tipping paper from smoked cigarettes), Adhesive, Acrylic, Tempera on canvas, Fabric, Metal poles

(63.39 x 116.93 in)

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