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Yoruba Diasporas II

Yoruba Diasporas I
Keepers of the Mimi Spirit
Beyond the Surface
Xu Zhongmin and Ye Yonqing
Hai Shuet Yeung
Julieta Rubio and Charles Beauchamp
Elisabeth Lalouschek

Yoruba Diasporas II
Ancestral Signs
19th November 1997 to 20th December 1997



 

This exhibition looks at signs as ancestral iconographic forms, exploring ways in which some contemporary Yoruba artists use highly eometric and patterned work to reference and reinvent their ancient sign language. Work by Osi Audu, LeRoy Clarke, Mestre Didi and James Phillips. 

 
 
 

 

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