Installation view, Dozie Kanu, Tinted Spirit, Project Native Informant, London

Dozie Kanu (b. 1993 Houston, Texas) creates artworks that are disobedient and stubbornly slippery. They resist classification and exist instead as communicative or performative objects. These objects are filtered through a personal lens drawn from the artist’s lived experiences as a Nigerian-American and member of the diaspora, both anchored in a Blackness the poet Fred Moten describes, in his book In the Break: Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, as “an ongoing performance of encounter: rupture, collision, and passionate response”.

Installation view, Dozie Kanu, Tinted Spirit, Project Native Informant, London

“I think the elusiveness in my work and my own personal categorisation comes from a place of self-governance, and a disobedience rooted in having the authority to place myself wherever or nowhere.”

Dozie Kanu, Ars Jus Pax, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Project Native Informant, London

Dozie Kanu's exhibition Tinted Spirit continues at Project Native Informant until Saturday 25th June.