Chioma Ebinama
penumbras, 2018

This series makes up Chioma Ebinama’s first solo exhibition with a gallery at Catinca Tabacaru NEW YORK. The show is curated by Raphael Guilbert.

“This work is ultimately a mourning song. It is a desperate attempt to link myself to a non literary past where the preservation of knowledge (and ultimately self-preservation) was dependent on ritual and performance. It is an invitation to engage the soul. In its formation, I wondered if perhaps the only real blackness is the blues—that delicate thread connecting me between two dark continents under an unblinking white gaze.”

– Chioma Ebinama, 2018

penumbra 01, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 08, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 19, 2018, watercolor on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 03, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 20, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 13, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 14, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 11, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 05, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 09, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbra 18, 2018, watercolor and ink on Indian cotton rag paper, 12 × 17 in

penumbras, 2018, curated by Raphael Guilbert, installation at Catinca Tabacaru, NY

penumbras, 2018, curated by Raphael Guilbert, installation at Catinca Tabacaru, NY