They white wedding by Olamilekan Okunade Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 30 x 36 in Year: 2024 Price: $3000.00 USD Status: available The white wedding. In this series, the composition serves as a metaphor for the influence of Western ideals and norms on cultural context. The narrative is that the white wedding symbolizes the imposition of Western values and customs on traditional practices which results in the blending of culture in the holy matrimony. I used this composition to reflect on themes of cultural authenticity, adaptation, and preservation which I am subjecting my audience to seeing the impacts of globalization and colonization in diverse societies while celebrating the richness of cultural diversity and the enduring spirit of tradition in the wedding context. Why collect this work?A bride is built from interlocking blocks of colour, making a ceremonial portrait appear both assembled and unsettled. Her sharply rendered face anchors a scene in which dress, flowers and blue ground approach abstraction. Okunade states that his practice examines women’s strength and cultural identity. Here, that focus takes the public image of a bride as its subject, while the figure’s direct gaze resists reducing her to ceremonial display.In the photograph, the white dress expands across nearly half the canvas, its pale rectangular patches set against darker blues and greens. The artist describes the wedding as a metaphor for Western customs entering traditional practice, although no specific tradition is visibly identified.The documented acrylic on canvas permits opaque, sharply bounded passages. Repeated rectangles fragment contours without dissolving the figure, while yellow flowers and red blooms interrupt the dominant blue-white structure.This painting can prompt discussion about how inherited ceremonies become culturally coded. Its tension lies in treating the wedding not as a fixed emblem, but as a composite form shaped by adaptation and competing claims to authenticity. About the ArtistOlamilekan Okunade Olamilekan Okunade is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Nigeria, NG. Nationality: Nigerian Geometry pattern| Constructivism Art| Pixilating Arts| Creating Piece with Acrylic on canvas Co-Founder @sipandpaintyourmentalhealth
