Morakinyo: Conserving The Past With Stamps Of Memory
22 July 2022 |
2:36 am
With a lot of memories lost to technological innovation, Femi Morakinyo (Morak) is touching on this aspect that encourages the preservation of memories with his first solo show
With a lot of memories lost to technological innovation, Femi Morakinyo (Morak) is touching on this aspect that encourages the preservation of memories with his first solo show, titled, Stamps of Memory.
People may typically think of memory as the recollection of the past. Memory enables people to learn from past experiences and apply that knowledge in present circumstances.
To understand a culture, humans access a vast array of cultural symbols, such as books. ‘Artefacts of the past provide insights into where we came from, his exhibition seems to have explained that.’
In the show which was held from May 1, 2023, to May 8, 2022, the 2010 graduate of Painting from the Yaba College of Technology exhibited a total of 13 works which include Contemplation, Jelosimi, Cool Kid In The Block, Daily Bread, Sunday Service, New Release and others.
Speaking on the reason for the show, he said: “I have sold a lot of paintings but I thought this is the time to put a face to the name so, this is my first solo exhibition. My inspiration comes from when I was a child; my dad used to collect stamps and I used to draw the images on the stamps, I spent some time with my grandmother who was into the collection of fabrics and she had old pans and trains.
“I have been in art for 10 years and my work is about reviving memories, and lost culture; forgetting about the aesthetics values, my works are different, my works connect to the background and the past,”, he said.
Speaking on why his work revolves around the past instead of the future, he said: “I believe that for a person to understand the future, he or she must know the past; people are forgetting so fast, children don’t know anything about slate we used in primary school, they use tab in school now, but there’s need for them to know and to know where we are coming from. We can’t find any of those things being painted any longer in the market, but seeing them in the painting, the children will understand where we are coming from, and how things have changed.
“I give credit to my father for collecting the stamps; aside from the memory, my dad was very key to starting this journey, he believed that when you are committed to what you are doing, you will be successful so, he encouraged me to study hard. I grew up in Akure, Ondo State, but I couldn’t find a successful artist there so, it was my greatest fear, but my dad encouraged me that I can make it and stand out; the son of a cleric said.
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