Eniola Dawodu biography

 

Eniola Dawodu is a British-born Nigerian textile artist and costume designer based between Dakar, Senegal and Brooklyn, New York. She is engaged in the cultural archiving of memories, methods, and magic concerning indigenous West African textiles and aesthetics of style and self-presentation. Her research and creative practice engages with traditional dress practice, its motif and methodology, as an instrument for cross-generational communication, steeped in sacred inheritance and history. With reverence to her ancestors, Dawodu reimagines garments of power as masques within which space is held for the inherent narratives of ancestral African experiences. In alliance with master artisans via ancient techniques, past and present-day collapse into cross-dimensional expression. Woven memoirs unite; a foundation upon which truths are embroidered.⁠

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Image: generation to generation / iran si iran, Hand-twisted synthetic hair fibers hand-woven into textile panels, cotton thread, dimba wooden bench, assorted rocks from Ile de Goree, hand-carved loom sticks from Côte d'Ivoire, 2019. Made in collaboration with Wolof coiffure artisans of Dakar, Senegal, and Manjak weavers of Fass Canal 4, Dakar, Senegal.