Artist
Iké Udé(Nigerian, born 1964)Nigerian, born 1964
CultureNigerian
Titles
- Sartorial Anarchy #36
- from the series Sartorial Anarchy
Date2013
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 35 1/2 × 23 5/8 in. (90.2 × 60 cm)
Sheet (at open): 42 5/16 × 30 1/2 in. (107.5 × 77.5 cm)
Sheet (at open): 42 5/16 × 30 1/2 in. (107.5 × 77.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2019.165
Not on view
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PhotographyObject Type
of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/postnationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman, and fashion/art.” These hyper-saturated photographs are carefully crafted, with each detail chosen by the artist. Grounding conceptual ideas of performance and repre- sentation with selected fashions from across the world and time, Udé creates an enduring, global, and fashionable self-image.
ProvenanceThe artist, New York; given to MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History"Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 23–September 22, 2019.
"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.
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Ike no Taiga
Hanging scroll; ink and pigment on paper
2021.257
