The Eleventh House
This is Art Rug Projects’ fourth artist collaboration and the second project with The Breeder.
For the first time, Ebinama creates a series of rugs, handtufted in silk and wool. She deploys many of the recurrent symbols that populate the universe of her work: the eye [seeing inward and outward], the python [the messenger of Mami Wata], and the butterfly [the mark of mortality and the ephemeral]. The Eleventh House represents yet another way through which the artist applies her aesthetic and philosophic concerns to real life.
The collision of aesthetics and presentation techniques is indicative of Ebinama’s nomadic life and in recent years as she carried her practice from Mexico, South Korea, India, Malaysia and now Greece.
A natural storyteller with a background in sociology and illustration, Ebinama draws from a wealth of visual resources ranging from the craft and ritual traditions of West Africa to the watercolours of the Indian Subcontinent and the popular iconography of Japanese comics. She is interested in how the archetypal images across craft, religions, and myths of many cultures—the visual culture of the common man—reflect a universal story about how we collectively navigate change, violence, beauty, prejudice and nonconformity.
The Eleventh House
May 11 – June 3, 2023
The Breeder, Athens
