Ima-Abasi Okon
Ima-Abasi Okon woont en werkt momenteel in Londen en Amsterdam. Een aantal exposities van haar zijn: Taylor Le Melle, Text Exercises, organised with Richard Birkett, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna; The Art of Critique: Image Power, Frans Hal Museum, Haarlem; The Same Room: Julie Becker in Dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin; sur— [infinite Slippage: production of the r ~e ~a ~l as an intensive magnitude starting at zero-eight] —plus, Void, Derry - Londonderry; Technical - Adjacent, Turf Projects, London; (2020); Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Handclaps of M’s Hard’Loved’Flesh [I’M irreducibly undone because] —Leanage-Complex-Dub, Chisenhale Gallery, London; The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2019); Parables for the BLAZER: Mahalia’s EXCISTENCEandEXISTENTS-HyPE fragrant stacking balm (306.HAL), Plaza Plaza, London; Sur— [MIX-USE COMMODITY] —plus, Kingsgate Project Space, London; 13th Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar; There’s something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London (2018).
Okon heeft de Turner Bursary; a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award; the Artist Foundation Award (2020) en de Nigel Greenwood Research Prize (2018) ontvangen. Ze heeft residencies voltooid bij; Rijksakdemie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands (2021); Hospitalfield (2018) Villa Lena (2017) and Supercollider (2015).
De deelname van Okon is en gevolg van de benoeming van Aude Christel Mgba (3Package Deal 2020). Okon en Mgba hebben de intentie om samen te werken binnen de Interhistoriciteit coalitie. Hoewel de individuele praktijk van Mgba en Okon zullen worden ondersteund, zullen ze werk presenteren dat samen tot stand is gekomen.