Viewing Room opens:
SMO is pleased to present Chika Idu’s latest artworks with an exploration of submerged figures suspended within clear blue waters. The figures drift with intention, exploring a pristine and pure underwater world of wonder and harmony. The water is thick with painterly movement through layered palette-knife gestures, and found materials. These experimental impressions mimic the shifting currents and refraction of light beneath the water's surface, a pristine world that is powerfully juxtaposed against a series of intense portraits of women and children in the flow of life’s challenges and questions.