ZOHRA IN CONVERSATION WITH ENUMA OKORO, SUITE BERLIN

ARTIST TALK

BERLIN ART WEEK

September 12, 2024

Berlin, Germany

Opoku speaks with Enuma Okoro about her works showing at the solo exhibition, Suite Berlin. They are the latest and last works developed for the series ‘The Myths of Eternal Life’.

Enuma Okoro is a Nigerian-American author, writer, lecturer, curator, and arts and culture critic. She is a weekly columnist for the Financial Times weekend newspaper. Her column, “The Art of Life,” reflects her broader research and writing interests: how the intersection of art, philosophy, spirituality, ecology and culture can speak to the human condition and interrogate how we live with ourselves and one another, and how we relate to the more-than-human. Underlying this interrogation is a deeper interest in knowledge systems, and the power of narrative and story. She writes, lectures, curates and hosts public conversations with the grounding premise that stories, through their varying mediums, are how we challenge old or false narratives, free our imaginations and tell new and expanded truths that shift perceptions and instigate change. And she believes that stories are everywhere. Even the trees and the rivers and the animals hold them.