Braided Not Broken III by Patience Adekunle
Explore Mondoir Studio
Medium: Electronic cables and Fabric on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 24 in
Year: 2026
Price: $2650.00 USD
Status: available
Braided Not Broken III is a celebration of strength, beauty, and resilience through hair. This work tells the story of women who carry culture, crown, and confidence in every braid. More than a hairstyle, braids are armor, history, and healing. We are not broken, we are braided. Rooted, styled, and rising.
Why collect this work?
An enlarged braided silhouette controls the portrait’s structure, turning hair from a framing detail into the work’s dominant visual and spatial force.
- The artist profile identifies Patience Adekunle as a Nigerian artist based in Ibadan. Her statement connects her broader use of recycled electronic cables with environmental accountability, identity, and resilience.
- In the photograph, dense dark coils surround a frontal face built from short, differently coloured marks. The steady gaze and near symmetry counter the hair’s expanding clusters, which press against and partly cross the canvas edges.
- The documented medium is electronic cables and fabric on canvas. Together, these materials make possible both narrow linear articulation and substantial relief, giving the portrait a physical presence beyond a painted outline.
- For a collection examining contemporary portraiture, the work provides a focused case study in how hairstyle can organize an entire image rather than merely identify its subject. Material accumulation makes that emphasis concrete.
About the Artist
Patience Adekunle
Patience Adekunle is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media ( electronic cables and wire on canvas) . Based in Lagos , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My Art champions sustainability, strength, and the resilience of African communities. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
