→ Bubu Ogisi

Bubu Ogisi is a fibre research artist and creative director of the contemporary art brand, IAMISIGO. Her work revolves around the idea of how the body exists and interacts with space through time. Ogisi fuses tradition with a contemporary design aesthetic, by utilizing unconventional materials and ancient textile techniques from her heritage. Her work aims to decolonise and free the mind by manipulating gravity, light, colour, mass, and transparency to demonstrate the infinite transformations and iterations of materiality. Engaging with socio-political themes such as spirituality, gender, and future ecosystems, her work conveys lost stories through abstract space installations, textile art, and moving visuals. By exaggerating texture, structure, and space she can break and transform the rules and expectations of what textiles are into transient humanity. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now based between Lagos and Nairobi, Ogisi studied Fashion at the prestigious Ecole Superieure des Art et Technique de la Mode (ESMOD) in Paris, France.