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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Esiri Erheriene-Essi

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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
, Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, 7.08 - 3.09.2021Esiri Erheriene-Essi

The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Esiri Erheriene-Essi

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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be, Esiri Erheriene-Essi
Following her breakthrough exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after being nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2019 (the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40), Esiri Erheriene-Essi, the London-born but Amsterdam-based artist, made her name as one of the most promising emerging painters of her generation.
 
After completing a two-year residency at Amsterdam’s post graduated institute De Ateliers, Erheriene-Essi developed a highly personal approach to her work, concentrating on large-scale figurative paintings that give prominence to images of Black people, by exploring the untold, often unknown and forgotten or even neglected narratives of members from the African diaspora.
 
As a British born Nigerian, the artist is drawn to and analyses images of Black life that she sources largely from national and private archives from around the world as well as images from popular culture (past and present), from newspapers and other media outlets. Erheriene-Essi transfers these images to her canvases where she uses them to create settings and contexts for her painted images, which are of a more private character. Based on amateur photographs from the artist’s collection of others (often discarded) family albums, anonymous people become the heroes and protagonists of her stories. The scenes depicted are often everyday moments of individuals and families living their normal lives as Erheriene-Essi is interested in producing images centred on Blackness occupying multiplex spaces in myriad ways, mundane as (well as) political. Providing room for both contemplation and difference - where the anger, fear, and ambivalence of the past, present and future, is not denied but also not allowed to stand alone as representation of Blackness, but rather, as it does in our lives, coexist with joy, hope and the ordinary.
 
Through collaging the past and the present, the public with the domestic, the remembered and the disregarded she acknowledges just how fragmented and circumstantial history is. In sharing these intimate glimpses and through this selecting, deconstructing and reformulating of the source photographs through painting, Erheriene-Essi invites the viewer to connect with the figures in ambiguous yet completely present and familiar ways.
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  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Excursion, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Excursion, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Future Isn't What it Used To Be, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 232 cm 59 1/8 x 91 3/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Future Isn't What it Used To Be, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 232 cm
    59 1/8 x 91 3/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi Things I Imagined, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 175 x 145 cm 68 7/8 x 57 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    Things I Imagined, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    175 x 145 cm
    68 7/8 x 57 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi A conflict of Interest, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    A conflict of Interest, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi Forever isn't for everyone , 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 150 cm 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    Forever isn't for everyone , 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 150 cm
    59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi And for the purposes of any potential lawsuits, that is just my opinion, not a statement of fact, 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    And for the purposes of any potential lawsuits, that is just my opinion, not a statement of fact, 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi A few minutes early is right on time, 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 145 x 195 cm 57 1/8 x 76 3/4 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    A few minutes early is right on time, 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    145 x 195 cm
    57 1/8 x 76 3/4 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Adults Are Talking, 2021 oil ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 150 cm 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Adults Are Talking, 2021
    oil ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 150 cm
    59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi You've Really Got A Hold On Me (for Jean Harris), 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 175 cm 53 1/8 x 68 7/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    You've Really Got A Hold On Me (for Jean Harris), 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 175 cm
    53 1/8 x 68 7/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Excursion, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Excursion, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Future Isn't What it Used To Be, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 232 cm 59 1/8 x 91 3/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Future Isn't What it Used To Be, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 232 cm
    59 1/8 x 91 3/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi Things I Imagined, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 175 x 145 cm 68 7/8 x 57 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    Things I Imagined, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    175 x 145 cm
    68 7/8 x 57 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi A conflict of Interest, 2021 Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    A conflict of Interest, 2021
    Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi Forever isn't for everyone , 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 150 cm 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    Forever isn't for everyone , 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 150 cm
    59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi And for the purposes of any potential lawsuits, that is just my opinion, not a statement of fact, 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 135 cm 53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    And for the purposes of any potential lawsuits, that is just my opinion, not a statement of fact, 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 135 cm
    53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi A few minutes early is right on time, 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 145 x 195 cm 57 1/8 x 76 3/4 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    A few minutes early is right on time, 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    145 x 195 cm
    57 1/8 x 76 3/4 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi The Adults Are Talking, 2021 oil ink and xerox transfer on linen 150 x 150 cm 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    The Adults Are Talking, 2021
    oil ink and xerox transfer on linen
    150 x 150 cm
    59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi You've Really Got A Hold On Me (for Jean Harris), 2021 oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen 135 x 175 cm 53 1/8 x 68 7/8 in
    Esiri Erheriene-Essi
    You've Really Got A Hold On Me (for Jean Harris), 2021
    oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
    135 x 175 cm
    53 1/8 x 68 7/8 in
Publications
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi

    Esiri Erheriene-Essi

    The Future Isn't What It Used To Be MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, 2021
    Book 132 pages
    Publisher: MARUANI MERCIER Gallery
    ISBN: 978-2-930487-39-7
    Dimensions: 30 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm
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News
  • The Future Isn't What it Used to Be

    The Future Isn't What it Used to Be

    Mutual Art 23.7.2021
    Following her breakthrough exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after being nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2019 (the oldest and most prestigious...
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