Tomorrow AfroFigurine - EAHR 2019

3D Model

Connecting African masquerade and Afro-Caribbean carnival with Afrofuturism, for thepractice of celebrating culture and history. The digitally sculpted statues allegorically represent 5 areas of research for Afrofuturism as an art movement: curation; painting and installation; photography and film; literature and performance arts. The intent is to tribute 15 Canadian creatives who have made contribution to Afrofuturism as an art movement. Each statue is in a carnival costume paired with a ceremonial African masquerader mask.

The statue representing visual arts is wearing the Iyoba Idia ivory mask of the Edo people from Benin and Nigeria.

Literature is personified with the Krobo Mask from Eastern Ghana.

Film and Photography contains the Kifwebe mask of the Songye people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Curatorial practices have a steampunk version of the Walu mask of the Dogon people of Mali.

Performance art is paired with the twin-faced Punu-Lumbo of the Gabon people