The Pzay Experience
Fri, Dec 07
|Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center
A Solo Exhibition presented through a cross-cultural perspective that represents past, present, and future. The Pzay Experience
Time & Location
Dec 07, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center, 3200 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC, USA
About the event
The artwork is presented through a cross-cultural perspective that represents past, present, and future. Each piece is inspired in equal parts by American & Nigerian culture, thus representing the artist’s social and cultural upbringing. Nigeria represents his past: his roots, his origin, his biological composition while and the America represents the present: his current location, socialization, and upbringing.
Each piece communicates the cross between both cultures, just as the artist himself communicates a cross between both cultures. The artist chose his own family as the subjects because they each have unique characteristics that have shaped the way the artist thinks.
They have also deposited a piece of themselves in his heart and life. The artist’s parents emigrated from Nigeria decades ago bringing with them a wildly unique way of communicating, connecting, and living. The Nigerian style of parenting juxtaposed with the American style of child rearing left the artist at…
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