AFIKARIS Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition in France by Nigerian artist Eva Obodo, And We Hired a Carpenter to Patch the Cloth—from November 6, 2025 to January 3, 2026).
Obodo creates visual narratives that evoke the complex socio-political and economic structures that frame contemporary culture. Rooted in the Nsukka School, his charcoal works reference issues of natural resources and development in Nigeria to create colorful visual metaphors. They speak to the connections between individuals and their social relations woven against economic and political backgrounds, connected by community, nation and the global economy through the trade of goods and ideas.
And We Hired a Carpenter to Patch the Cloth unfolds as a meditation on care: each stitch, patch, or fold gestures toward restoration, imperfect yet deliberate. Rather than offering conclusions, Obodo opens a space where the viewer becomes part of the conversation, and the act of seeing itself becomes an act of repair.
