ARTWORKS
Ibrahim has an enthralling capacity to translate his experiences and those around him into a poetic visual language through photography and paintings that are characterized by the use of Ankara fabrics.
Bamidele’s subjects, inspirations, and palette of materials are sourced from his immediate environment and personal experiences. He expresses his vision of the world in striking compositions that address political, religious, and societal themes on humanity.
Through his portraits, he captures stories and social habits that serendipitously trickle through generations and releases them in an emotional purgation onto his compositions, capturing joys of life in their uncombined expressions.
A believer himself, often through his haloed portraits Ibrahim eulogizes his black portraits which were obliterated in European art history. Haloed black characters hardly existed during the Gothic and Romanesque period, by monumentalizing and ennobling black figures, Bamidele acknowledges its role in the fabric and identity of the African. continent.
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