People and connection
Within the carvings lie several masks, which can be interpreted to be mediums’ or links to the sacred traditional “outside world”.
Order a printBorn in 1964 in Ghana, Oviri Alaric is a native of Agbarha-otor in Ughelli, Delta State. Over time, he has maintained a sustained relationship with the Ovuomaroro Gallery where he presently works as a consultant and manager for the Harmattan workshop.
Read moreThe work depicts a unique visual language that is akin to the traditional African Nsibidi and Uli systems of symbols and drawings indigenous to the Southeastern part of Nigeria. His work can be seen as a coded ideographic representation of a people, their royalty and connection to their ancestral deities. The work shows the performance of restitution before a Chief or King surrounded by surrogates, men and women who take position of reverence and servitude. Within the carvings lie several masks, which can be interpreted to be mediums’ or links to the sacred traditional “outside world”.