Toyin Ojih Odutola in Conversation with Yaa Gyasi and Texas Isaiah

Feb 9, 2018

In her exhibition To Wander Determined, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families. For this program, Ojih Odutola invites novelist Yaa Gyasi and visual narrator Texas Isaiah to discuss their respective practices as artists and their overlapping and intersecting interests, from narrative and portraiture to migration and dislocation. The conversation is moderated by Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator.


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