Weightless by Oluwafemi Akanmu
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Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 48 in
Year: 2025
Price: $2800.00 USD
Status: available
Weightless captures a suspended moment between control and release. His posture suggests not defeat, but acceptance a letting go of tension, burden, and the unseen trials that press upon the human form. freedom is often found not in resistance, but in surrender in the act of allowing oneself to fall, to rest, to breathe again. Weightless becomes both a visual and emotional meditation on resilience, transformation, and the liberation that comes from releasing what no longer serves us.
Why collect this work?
A steep bodily diagonal makes rest appear precarious: the chair supports the figure’s torso while his head and arm extend beyond it, holding release and physical weight in tension.
- Akanmu states that his practice centres Black dignity, hope and resilience. Here, dignity is located not in heroic action but in a pause from keeping the body composed and upright.
- In the supplied image, the tipped head, open torso and hanging arm contrast with the chair’s angular edges. Deep blue trousers and green upholstery project against a dense pink pattern, compressing the shallow space around the reclining figure.
- Catalogued as charcoal and acrylic on canvas, the work combines a medium suited to tonal drawing with one capable of broad, opaque colour. Their coexistence makes possible the contrast between modeled anatomy and flattened pattern visible here.
- Dated 2025 and measuring 36 by 48 inches, Weightless can be encountered as a contemporary study of repose that refuses a simple division between exhaustion and relief.
About the Artist
Oluwafemi Akanmu
Oluwafemi Akanmu is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ibadan, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
Through my art, I intentionally highlight the richness of African culture and its enduring beauty, with particular emphasis on the dignity and...
