Oroma Elewa

Oroma
Elewa

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°6, This is Ridiculous, 2022
Tom Relax Serie, Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
3 prints on paper Baryta Hahnemuhle 315 g, mounted on dibond
3 x (172 x 111 x 3 cm) / Overall : 172 x 333 x 3 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP

Oroma Elewa
CASH OVER GRAMMAR, 2022
Currency's Dilemma Serie, Area Babes & Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
11 individual prints on stainless steel
Over all : 62 x 205 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
Crédit photo : Aurélien Mole mars 2023

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°4, It Wouldn't Be You, 2022
Tom Relax Serie, Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
2 prints mounted on dibond
2 x (101 x 81 cm)
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°5, We Both Know, 2022
Tom Relax Serie, Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
2 prints on paper Baryta Hahnemuhle 315 g, mounted on dibond
2 x (172 x 111 x 3 cm) / Overall : 172 x 222 x 3 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP

Oroma Elewa
GIVE HIM THE CHECK, 2022
Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
3 individuals prints on stainless steel
76,2 x 156 x 2 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa / Crédit photo : Aurélien Mole
Courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°3, You are not as generous as you think, 2022
Tom Relax Serie, Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
2 prints on paper Baryta Hahnemuhle 315 g, mounted on dibond
2 x (172 x 111 x 3 cm) / Overall : 172 x 222 x 3 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa

Oroma Elewa
JOSHUA, 2022
Currency's Dilemma Serie, Area Babes & Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
12 individual prints on stainless steel
Over all : 53 x 153 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
Crédit photo : Aurélien Mole mars 2023

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°2, The Money, 2021
Tom Relax Serie, Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars 2019 -
2 prints mounted on dibond
2 x (101 x 81 cm)
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa. Photographie : Aurélien Mole

Oroma Elewa
Babe Listen No.1, 2021
Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars
24 prints on paper Baryta Hahnemuhle 315 g, mounted on aluminium, pink paint (pantone : 204 C)
12 x (52 x 52 cm) + 12 x (11 x 52 cm) Overall : 244,5 x 263 cm avec la peinture murale
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa. Photographie : Aurélien Mole

Oroma Elewa
Tom Relax n°1, 2021
Area Babes and Ashawo Superstars
2 prints on paper Baryta Hahnemuhle 315 g, mounted on dibond
2 x (172 x 111 x 3 cm); Overall : 172 x 222 x 3 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP
© Oroma Elewa. Photographie : Aurélien Mole

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Oroma Elewa is a Nigerian-born American visual and performance artist, writer, and creative director living and working between New York and Lagos. With a varied practice encompassing performance art and film, digital media, photography, installation, drawing, and writing, Elewa?s work explores socio-cultural constructs that inform transnational African cosmopolitan identity and black female experience, thought, and expression.

Recent group exhibitions of Elewa?s work include Burned Out at Le 18 in Marrakech, curated by Yvon Lange and Leila Hilda for the 5th DABAPHOTO in Morocco in 2019; Togethering, curated by artist Otobong Nkanga at In Situ ? Fabienne Leclerc, Paris in 2022; artgenève 2022 in Geneva, presented by In Situ ? Fabienne Leclerc; Currency at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2022 curated by Koyo Kouoh, Gabriella Beckhurst Feijoo, Rasha Salti and Oluremi C. Onabanjo for the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, Germany; Paris Par, Art Basel Paris in 2022 presented by In Situ ? Fabienne Leclerc and Artissima 2022 in Turin, Italy where she won the Tosetti Value Prize for Photography.

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EXHIBITION (SELECTION)

Solo shows :

2023

Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris, France

Group exhibitions :

2022

Currency: Photography Beyond Capture, 8th edition of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Togethering, featuring Oroma Elewa, Bill Kouélany, Obi Okigbo, Adeola Olagunju, Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

Awards :

Tosetti Value Prize, Artissima 2022, Turin, IT