24"x36" (Edition of 6)
40"x60" (Edition of 3)
Signed, Archival Dye Sublimation Aluminum Metal Print
Our collector's editions are archival prints signed and numbered by artist Mikael Owunna in limited edition, with only nine that will ever be produced. Due to their limited, archival, and signed nature, collector's editions accrue value over time, make a priceless addition to your collection, and are a valuable long-term investment. Mikael Owunna collector's edition pieces have been acquired by major museums, private collections, and institutions across the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Davidson College Van Every / Smith Galleries; Equal Justice Initiative; Duke University Pratt School of Engineering; and Middlebury College Museum of Art.
This archival print is printed directly onto aluminum with a brilliant white high gloss surface for unsurpassed detail and vibrance. The white gloss surface creates a glass-like, vibrant finish for each piece with deep blacks and a stunning 3-Dimensional effect. Each print comes complete with an aluminum brace hanging system, which allows the artwork to float frameless off the wall as if it were floating through space, and is backed with 1/4" of Sintra for added durability and weight. Obi Mbu (The Primordial House) Collector's Editions are signed and numbered by Owunna and co-director, Marques Redd.
Obi Mbu (The Primordial House) (2021) is a 30 minute experimental dance film that is centered in the Primordial House, located in the Sirius star system, from which creation emerges. Eke-Nnechukwu, the Igbo high god, and Chukwu, Her masculine counterpart, exist in perfect unity in and as the Blackness of space. Although They are dual aspects of the Primordial Androgynous deity, Chukwu sections off a part of space exclusively for Himself in the form of a sacred pillared chamber in the heart of the Primordial House. He engages in a secret work by dancing in and out of this chamber, which sets off a chain of irrevocable circumstances that lead to our current world and condition.
Wall Preview Size: 40"x60"
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Creative Process
In Obi Mbu (The Primordial House), Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd employ ultraviolet strobes, painted fluorescent backdrops, and carefully hand painted bodies of Black dancers, Corey Bourbonniere and Victoria Watford, that only glow under ultraviolet light. When photographed and filmed in total darkness, the shutter snaps, and synchronized beams of ultraviolet light illuminate a glowing scene that reanimates this particular Igbo creation myth of the Odachi ka Odachi.
