Samuel Nnorom

20 September 2022

A graduated in sculpture (MFA) from the prestigious Nsukka school in Nigeria where El Anatsui teaches, Samuel Nnorom (1990 Nos Jort Nigeria) explores the history and identity of his Igbo culture transforming fabric scraps Ankara. The artist illustrates the incessant cycle of consumer culture while engaging social interactions. Samuel Nnorom’s bubbles question the history of textiles, its origins, its use, the materiality of the work and its content. The artist sculpts forms related to the organic, the animal, kind of arachnian chrysalis, like sometimes breaking, sometimes confronted with space, sometimes with the wall. An artistic practice as one more example of the multiple meanings that fabrics can take on in their relationship to our lives and that the art of textiles celebrates. Samuel Nnorom has just won the Cassirer Welz Prize. He also holds a BAed (sculpture major) from the University of Jos.