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Karimah Ashadu’s interdisciplinary practice uses filmic means as a starting point for immersive installations that comprise sculpture, photography, painting and the moving image. Her work is concerned with labour, masculinity and notions of independence pertaining to the socio-economic and socio-cultural context of Nigeria and its diaspora. Ashadu utilises the camera as a tool that frames and guides the process of seeing, creating tension between what is directed and observed. Early works employed self-devised corporeal mechanisms which intervene in the camera’s movement; pitching the viewer into motion within an environment, highlighting states of flux or precariousness. Developed through an embodied approach to image-making, her films resist categorisation, unfolding through a visual language shaped by materiality and the sensory. Karimah Ashadu (b. 1985, London) lives and works between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the 18th Istanbul Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Camden Art Center, London; Canal Projects, New York; and Secession, Vienna. Ashadu has upcoming solo exhibitions in 2026 at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. For more information, please contact us here.
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