Identity: An imagined state

Vanessa Padilla's The Worm, 2001 is a grimy and neboulous account of the fragmented and incomplete movements of a "worm". Constantly mutating and envolving, Padilla evokes the worm as a metaphor for the ways in which our identity is constantly in flux, or under constrution. This work, according to Padilla, is a representation of the challenges we face in navigating a vast and unfamiliar world: "without words, without definied spaces, without certainties, but also without fear".

Curators: Jude Anogwih, Oyinda Fakeye and Bisi Silva
Lagos, Nigeria