QL-Galerie

• Exhibition

3/5/2026 - 4/25/2026

Unfolding Horizons

Female Nigerian Artists in Graz

Unfolding Horizons – Female Nigerian Artists in Graz brings the works of two contemporary artists from Nigeria to Graz for the first time and opens up a
multi-layered dialogue between origin, a different perspective on modernity, and the present. The exhibition navigates the tension between craft practices, cultural knowledge, and contemporary artistic strategies—between tradition and transformation, memory and future, and female identity.

• Artists:
• Pamela Cyril-Egware
• Pamela Cyril-Egware draws inspiration from textile and dyeing techniques of the Niger Delta. Her works combine batik, resist techniques, and graphic elements with contemporary explorations of community as a space of female experience. Natural forms, particularly aquatic motifs, become vessels of cultural memory and, at the same time, open images of change and movement—both literally, when used on clothing, and figuratively, as murals. The exhibition features several of her murals with figurative representations, as well as multiple lengths of fabric assembled into a spatial installation.
• Juliet Ezenwa Pearce
• Juliet Ezenwa Pearce works at the intersection of sculpture, masks, and graphic art, combining artistic practice with social engagement. In her female heads and masks crafted from eco-friendly wood, as well as in her installation *Female Masquerade*, she deliberately draws on formal references to Nok sculptures, Igbo-Ukwu artifacts, and Esie soapstone. Pearce questions the historical exclusion of women from spiritual, ritual, and political spaces and deliberately challenges cultural taboos by portraying women as bearers of authority and visibility. Her works give voice to those who have long been marginalized and make a powerful plea for participation, equality, and cultural self-determination.

• Support:
• Eine Ausstellung des Afro-Asiatischen Instituts Graz

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