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Chinezim Moghalu | contemporary artist

Chinezim Moghalu is a contemporary artist who works across multidisciplinary media that include painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. His work examines and emphasises post-colonialism with a regard to class, religion, gender interest(s), and the multifaceted realities of daily living in Africa, where he resides.

Moghalu's working process is similar to that of a music composition: spontaneous, bricolage, engrossing, and eclectic. He works predominantly on oil colour, acrylic and canvas medium. In his work, he tries as much as he can to depict his subjects and figures as suggestive, intriguing, evocative, attention-worthy, sensual, and self addressing.

There's usually a moment for a pause and deliberation in his work: a moment he considers as "a pertinent inlooking/reconsidering/analysis of the creative impulse." A moment that could alter his work process, or stir a complete erasure of a given piece. There is, equally, an element of meticulosity in the outlay of his works; he tends to be preoccupied with a fear of not letting his work become 'unfinished.'

Chinezim's work influences are superfluous, as his interests widen. His work is influenced with the works of artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Chris Ofili, Tschabalala Self, Victor Ehikhamenor.

Moghalu earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin in Nigeria in 2016.

While painting, his palette informs largely indicative sombre hues that coalesces with thoughtfully-chosen vibrant colours.

He creates art because, for him, it is a means of intuitively expressing his creative impulses. An interpretation of the world we inhabit.

His artistic practice began professionally in 2017. Subsequently, he has participated in and had his work included in a number of art exhibitions, including: A Tale of 1000 Miniatures Art Fair, Lagos (2018); "Anchorage", joint exhibition, Brilliant Brush Gallery, Lagos (2019, 2020); and Salon Sales: The Learning Centre/Yemisi Shyllon Museum, The Learning Centre, Lagos (2022).

He currently lives and work in Lagos, Nigeria.