Chris Iduma
Untitled (from Self-Portraits series – woman with painted face)

Untitled (from Self-Portraits series – woman with painted face)

© 2021 Chris Iduma

Untitled (from Self-Portraits series – woman with painted face)
Untitled (from Self-Portraits series – woman with painted face)
ArtistNigerian, born 1993
CultureNigerian
Titles
  • Untitled (from Self-Portraits series – woman with painted face)
  • from the series Self-Portraits
Date2021, printed 2021
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 30 × 38 1/8 in. (76.2 × 96.8 cm)
Sheet: 32 15/16 × 40 15/16 in. (83.6 × 104 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Morris Weiner
Object number2022.46
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


In his Self-Portraits series, Chris Iduma uses his camera to consider the ways in which Nigerian women have been treated in a hyper-masculine culture. Positioning one man and one woman to give the appearance of a single, elongated body, Iduma recasts both masculine and feminine into one symbiotic body. These images are not traditional self-portraits but rather serve to question the ways in which cultural standards and ideologies about men’s and women’s roles contribute to a sense of self and others in the world. Iduma notes that he is “providing an experimental chance to challenge one’s perceptions, perspectives and assumptions.”



ProvenanceThe artist, Lagos, Nigeria; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

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