Chioma Ebinama
mammywater, 2019

mammywater is an elegy to the African divine feminine drowned out by religious colonization. The series is a personal reflection on Black femininity outside of the Judeo-Christian complex; antithetical to precolonial West African thought and environmental spirituality.

The series was first shown at the artist run space, BAF Gallery, in Brooklyn, NY

Leopard Woman (Snatched), 2019, watercolor and sumi ink on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 22 × 30 in

Nne (mother), 2019, watercolor, sumi ink, and thread on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 26 × 67 in

Nne (mother) (Detail)

Ejima (twins) playing with good hair, watercolor, sumi ink, and thread on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 25 × 69 inches

Ejima (twins) playing with good hair (Detail)

I can’t go to church anymore, 2019, watercolor, sumi ink, and cotton thread on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 13 × 24 in

I can’t go to church anymore, (Detail)

Python with three men in her belly, 2019, watercolor and sumi ink on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 22 × 30 in

Python with three men in her belly (Detail)

lolo/unknown 02, 2019, watercolor and sumi ink on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 13 × 17 in

lolo/unknown 01, 2019, watercolor and sumi ink on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 13 × 17 in

hair is also dead, 2019, watercolor, sumi ink, and cotton thread on handmade Indian cotton rag paper, 25 × 52.5 in

hair is also dead (Detail)