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by William Ukoh

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

For the artist, rest and relaxation aren’t just aesthetics—they are where freedom is found

Most of Ukoh’s subjects are Black, which is less a radical approach to art than it is the natural ethos of a man who grew up on the mainland stretch of Nigeria’s capital, surrounded by people he saw himself in. “It wasn’t until recently that I started to ask myself how growing up in that environment affects how I approach my work,” he says. Ukoh spent the better part of his childhood playing in his family’s Lagos apartment, furnished with his mother’s ever-growing collection of wooden sculptures, traditional African masks, and prints of High Renaissance paintings. He often occupied himself by watching anime and cartoons—limitless worlds, he says, where “there were zero consequences.” When he wasn’t watching these programs, the sound of his mother watching fashion television would fill the living room. All these fragments of childhood background noise have come to guide his practice.

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