One from a portfolio of eleven etchings with gravure on pigmented paper
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Ofili made these prints shortly after he moved from London to Trinidad. He challenged himself to work exclusively with a restricted palette of blues and silver, saying “I’ve found that the night and twilight here enhances the imagination. . . . It’s a different level of consciousness that is less familiar to me.” Ofili’s iridescent works—which pay homage to the Japanese tradition of shunga, a type of erotic printmaking popular during the Edo period—invite a different kind of looking. The subtle tonal shifts and fine linework require time for the eye to discern in compositions that gradually reveal themselves.
2023
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