[The Guardian] The artist who removes skin colour and boundaries – in pictures

The artist who removes skin colour and boundaries – in pictures

In this series of vibrant oil paintings, Nigerian artist Ekene Stanley Emecheta depicts figures drawn from fantasy, history and his own life, replacing their skin colour with a layer of white paint.

“My paintings are based on the human aura,” he says. “I paint over them with white because I think it gives it a soulful look and creates a sense of inward expression… when I eliminate the skin colour, it removes the boundary that makes us limit our humanity and the ways we can imagine ourselves existing.”

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