Tiwani Contemporary is hugely excited to present this autumn at 24 Cork Street,
The Song I Once Knew, an incredible debut presentation by Ugonna Hosten who centres drawing at the core of her multidisciplinary practice and evolves episodic narratives featuring the psycho-spiritual encounters of a heroine in her own likeness on a pilgrimage of individuation and self-discovery.
The Song I Once Knew features recent and new intricately detailed drawings, scaled between panoramic and intimately scaled scenarios of ritual, worship, acceptance and transformation. We witness the departures and arrivals of Hosten's heroine on her pilgrimage, accompanied by her divine entity, Ebezina.
Ugonna Hosten works across media that includes collage, assemblage and printmaking. She has been engaging a process that she describes as, "broadening and deepening a felt sense of the transpersonal dimension", a spiritual awakening and foundation of a meditative practice that is taking her to new sites within, and uniting different fields of knowledge that includes philosophy, comparative mythologies, analytical psychology (specifically Carl Jung and Fanny Brewster) and Igbo spiritual traditions.
