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Chib?ike ?z?ma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, text and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut. Documented here are sixteen of the artist's large paintings rendered in oil and acrylic or acrylic spray paint on canvas, made in 2022. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at Simon Lee Gallery, London, the first solo exhibition of his work in the UK, this publication is the fourth pillar of a collaborative project by the artist, setting his own paintings in relation to video and audio works by Edward Owens and João Orecchia respectively. ?z?ma works with non-linear narratives, using a mix of painting languages that dodges and weaves the liminal spaces between representation and meaning. Fragments of stencilled letters jolt against textured pools of paint, and diaphanous figures are cropped by cinematic horizons. Comprising colourful, abstruse portraiture against stark black and white backgrounds, the paintings in 'To Kick a Stone' are deeply suggestive, but ultimately formalist explorations of shape and composition. 22 illustrations

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Chibụike Ụzọma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut. Ụzọma received his BFA from the University of Benin, an MFA from Yale University School of Art and was awarded the Francis Greenburger Fellowship in 2018. Ekow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, curator, editor and Chair of Fourth Plinth. He is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Tank, a former editor of Arena magazine, and the former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Bishupal Limbu is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University in Oregon, USA, where he teaches contemporary literary and cultural studies. His research explores the relation between aesthetic expression and questions of social and political change. Kat Sapera is Director at Simon Lee Gallery, London. She has previously worked as Director of Timothy Taylor, and independently on curatorial projects and private collection management. Carlos Valladares is a writer and critic. He studied film at Stanford University and has received his masters’ in History of Art and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He has written for Gagosian Quarterly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Film Comment, the Criterion Collection, Frieze, and n+1.

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