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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ugonna Hosten, My Mother’s Decree: See the tail of the kite, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ugonna Hosten, My Mother’s Decree: See the tail of the kite, 2023

Ugonna Hosten

My Mother’s Decree: See the tail of the kite, 2023
Charcoal, graphite and soft pastel on paper
116 x 149 cm
45 5/8 x 58 5/8 in (unframed)
127.5 x 160.5 x 5 cm
50 1/4 x 63 1/4 x 2 in (framed)
UHO 017
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My Mother’s Decree... originated from a dream recorded in my journal. A conversation with my mother about pre-colonial spiritual histories revealed her great-grandmother as a healer. The gesture she made...
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My Mother’s Decree... originated from a dream recorded in my journal. A conversation with my mother about pre-colonial spiritual histories revealed her great-grandmother as a healer. The gesture she made matched my dream, leading to the work—a paying attention to dreamscape informing creation.

Containment is key in alchemy: holding paradoxes and tensions, allowing them to interact until something transcendent emerges. Making the work releases it from headspace into material form.

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Ugonna Hosten: The Song I Once Knew, 2 October - 1 November 2025, Tiwani Contemporary London
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