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Handle My Lightweight, 2022

Nneka Osueke

Oil paint, 24 Karat Gold, and fabric on canvas

W99H119D3 cm

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About Nneka Osueke

I have this incessant need to tell the world the Truth about Africans and the diaspora.

As a West African woman born and raised in America, I experienced an identity crisis early on in life: I was torn between being both Black American and Nigerian. These groups, vastly different in culture in many ways and so misunderstood by one another, tugged at me on both ends. Worn out from this push and pull, I went searching, and in the most beautiful, eye-opening ways, I found the history everybody had missed out on. I found out there wasn't much separation between my bloodline and my birthplace.

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About this artwork

"Handle My Lightweight" is a play on a popular saying among young Black Americans, and pays homage to the Igbo tradition of masquerading. During masquerading, performers, mostly men, dress up in vibrant costumes to perform intricate dances and acrobatics for festivals, parties, or funerals. While each masquerade represents a certain ancestor spirit, the Agaba masquerade represents an ancestor who is always ready for a fight, never scared of anything. Agaba, a fierce warrior protector, literally translates to 'let's go.'
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