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The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi
2016-2017
Fictional families are rendered with documentary confidence, reversing familiar assumptions about race and class.
Artist field note
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Drawing as world-building.
Appears inThe Discoveries
The five in one idea
Odutola uses drawing to prove that representation can invent history, not merely record it.