This Nigerian artist creates larger-than-life portraits using an ordinary ballpoint pen
From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari's larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands of tiny lines made using a simple ballpoint pen.
This June she launched a touring exhibition of her new body of work entitled"Now I Wear Myself." In her new exhibition, Suowari considers the fetishization and condemnation of aesthetics associated with indigenous Nigerian cultures, and tries to destigmatize subjects that are often taboo in the country, like depression, grief and shame.As a child Suowari didn't know whether to be an artist, a poet or a dancer -- so she decided to be all three.
"I believe that everybody was created with a particular blueprint. It's like a puzzle -- you're supposed to be a certain kind of way to fit into the puzzle for better things to happen," she explained."We can't make up this beautiful picture if everybody's the same."Suowari's latest collection,"Now I Wear Myself," opened in Abuja on June 25. The exhibition will go on tour in October with the next showing in Lagos and further dates to be confirmed.
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