Water and soap may wash off the bloodstains from a rape victim’s clothes, floors, and walls but not the dark memories. At the ‘Dirty Laundry’ exhibition inside the new Whitespace, Ikoyi, the multidisciplinary artist, Wana Udobang fondly called Wana Wana interrogates multi-generational stories of sexual abuse, rape, and other traumatic experiences using poetry-themed installations. Yinka Olatunbosun reports
Two women are washing clothes in basins inside the exhibition hall. A notice on the wall invites others to bring their dirty laundry. A sight of the hung Installations-unframed prints- was a throwback to a time when homes had fabric calendars: our childhood or our parents’. Wana Udobong, a globe-trotting performer has the mastery of transporting the viewers through trauma, personal experiences of self, and others using deftly crafted poetry in mixed-media installations. Click here for full story