Hanya ( road in Hausa)
Wood Assembly Relief
45 x 40 x 5cm
2026
Hanya (road in Hausa) examines fracture and becoming as a condition of identity, where selfhood is not represented but continuously assembled through motion and material negotiation.
The horseman functions as a cultural mnemonic within Hausa/Fulani nomadic heritage, embodying mobility, status, and historical continuity, yet here is recontextualised within structures that simultaneously frame and destabilise it.
Fragmentation operates not as loss but as a semiotic system: wood, repair, and rupture articulate a material epistemology, similar to broken english (new formed linguistic intervention ) , where matter retains and transforms its historical agency.
