Finally the 'HLM Costume' is launched in Picture This moving image exhibition 'Three' with two other artists. The show puts together three very different artists making use of moving image in different ways that compliment there ways of working. It's a great feeling and confirms just how perseverance prevails where a positive vision exists. Dakar Building (pictured) HLM Costume and Dakar Taylors on DVD loop, are my triple screne works.
Exhibition text: Gloria Ojulari Sule travelled to the Dak'Art Biennale in 2006 ; this trip was an important journey for Ojulari Sule as an artist trying to locate her own practice within national and global contemporary art networks.
In Dakar Ojulari Sule became fascinated with the traditional African costume as an art form itself. Intrigued and inspired by the special qualities and pride revealed by the wearer of Senegalese dress and interpreting this pride as personification of true cultural identity Ojulari Sule embarked on a mission to engage in the everyday activity of having a traditional costume made. Filmed in Dakar and Bristol HLM Costume documents an experience of a woman following her vision to immerse herself in the local culture and engage with the city as someone on a home coming.
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