Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected, and Evelyn Osagie, known in some circles as Evelyn D’Poet has taken her art to the streets to preach the message of unity.
At the event tagged Words Meet Images 1.0, which took place at Agege, Lagos on Saturday, February 24, 2018, she held an outdoor art exhibition titled: Together Series, and open air poetry performances.
In the wake of diverse national and security concerns, Evelyn, using her art (photography and performance poetry) as a tool has given back to the society.
Among other qualities, Words Meet Images (WMI) is a moving art movement that strives to reach out to the world with its message of peace and unity one city at a time.
Her debut solo exhibition, titled Together Series, which is an outdoor installation, is part of her art to the street movement that seeks to promote love and appreciation of art while showcasing the benefit of arts to the world.
A live exhibition, it is geared towards inspiring different people of all ages that there is hope in Nigeria and that there is no place like home no matter how beautiful. With the original concept of using real life market women sitting by their wares as part of the installation exhibition, she preaches that the things we need are right here with us.
It was a picture perfect exhibition as the mats used as backdrops and installation of art blended perfectly with the trees in the open arena where the exhibition took place.
In photography, Osagie imagines photographs as unspoken memories garnished with experience and frozen in time. The images in the ‘Together series’ explore the metaphoric interaction between man, their environment, animals and inanimate objects towards harmony.
In addition to matters of the arts, also present at the event were counsellors for people who find that they are addicted to drugs to help them beat the habit.
The counsellors from Christ Against Drug Abuse Ministry, CADAM stated that theirs is an institute to help people get off drugs such as codeine, kushies, medicalised marijuana, pain killers that young ones use to get high, ‘Omi gutter’, which destroys their health and triggers seizures and drugs that come with all kinds of names.
In her performance, Evelyn also hammers on themes of domestic violence and the dangers of hiding it, governance insufficiency and girl child education.
The multitalented Evelyn, asides being an artist, is a journalist with The Nation Newspaper, and has been in active journalism for over a decade.
Culled from The Independent
