The breathe of time (II) by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 59 in
Year: 2023
Price: $2500.00 USD
Status: available
With every breath, a promise to keep, A tapestry woven where secrets run deep. Through laughter and sorrow, we find our embrace, etching our names in life’s gentle trace. For time may extend, but it also will fold, Wrapping our stories with courage and gold. In each moment lived, a lesson to find, The breath of existence, both tender and kind.
Why collect this work?
A dense network of curved marks turns the figure’s blue body into the painting’s measure of time, setting repetition and duration against a poised, nearly motionless pose.
- Ogunkanmbi describes his recurring lines as references to scarification, lineage, beauty and social identity. Here that stated concern helps explain why pattern belongs to the figure’s bodily presence rather than serving only as background ornament.
- The photograph shows a woman looking back across her shoulder, framed by oversized flowers, outlined leaves and looping hair. Her saturated yellow dress sharply separates her silhouette from the pale blue field, while the checkerboard below introduces a rigid spatial edge.
- Catalogue metadata identifies acrylic on canvas. Acrylic makes possible the painting’s combination of broad, opaque colour areas, crisp linear contours and tightly repeated surface marks, although the photograph cannot establish their physical texture.
- Encountering this 2023 painting alongside works about portraiture or patterned bodies could sharpen questions about when line describes anatomy, carries identity, or makes duration visible through accumulated labour.
About the Artist
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ibadan , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
Currently, Babafemi Chooses to make use of lines (scarifications) which were scared all through the body of his art which is an embodiment of...
