The masked woman is a self potrait series that explores representation of gender in Nigeria society through a performative lens. It attempts to avert the overarching male gaze by facing it head on with the artists own actions and choices. The images portray the solitary lifestyle of the super femme fatale character, choosing to achieve pleasure and contentment through self fulfillment that is not dictated by the subservient role as a housewife or defined through a man’s affection.
While depicting a confident and sexually free woman, the subject’s mask and body language also suggest a nuanced tone of isolation which speaks to her stigmatization in a society that has limiting and strictly defined roles of what the proper woman should be. By diverting the status-quo and exercising freedom of choice, such women are perceived as extreme, eccentric and outside of polite society in Nigeria.
The series personifies a growing number of independent professional women in Nigeria who at once assert their autonomy while also being ostracized by cultural norms.
Rather than waiting for the narrative to be told from the outside, the artist chooses to give birth to her own freedom in hope that it will inspire other women in Nigeria to express their independence and free will.
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A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself and is happy in what she is doing.
A liberated woman is a woman who has a sense of self
It all comes down to a freedom of choice
True or false: The corporate woman has been defined as the liberated woman and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she is now more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was, because she is so out of her power, and imitating male power is not power
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe that if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on
To be liberated a woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Every time we liberate a woman we liberate a man
