Banana Republic | Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu

  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture XII, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture VII, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture VIII, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture XI, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture IX, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture XIII, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Totem II, 2012
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Banana Sculpture V, 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, History Painting (after Géricault), 2011
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Yellow History (after Géricault), 2012
  • Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Blue History (after Géricault), 2012

Banana Republic
04 February - 10 March 2012

opening celebration Thursday 16 February, 5.30 – 8.30 pm

Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu’s work questions issues of identity, appropriation, iconography and cultural stereotypes.

His graphic sensibility combines 1960s Op Art with Nigerian Igbo traditions. Also inspired by music, including the songs of Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone, much of Jebila’s imagery plays with the limited Western concepts of ethnic artistic expression and what the artist himself refers to as "the imposed exotic".

Welcome to the Banana Republic.