Gida Ya Rikice (Hausa for The House Is in Turmoil)
Wood Assembly, found objects/ wood polish (styrofoam base)
120 x 110 x 80cm
2026
Gida Ya Rikice (The House Is in Turmoil) is an assembly wood installation exploring the instability of home within the context of a world shaped by displacement, violence, migration, and rising anti-immigration sentiment. Constructed from fragmented wood, suspended forms, and destabilised domestic structures, the work reflects the psychological tension of living through uncertainty, where identity and belonging are continually fractured and rebuilt. At the centre of the installation is a deconstructed Windsor chair, chosen for its association with British and European domestic heritage. Traditionally symbolic of stability and permanence, Is dismantle and reassemble into a precarious form, using it as a metaphor for the immigrant experience within contemporary global unrest. Hausa inspired motifs polished into the wood interrupt and transform the chair’s inherited cultural language, creating a dialogue between British domestic symbolism and my Hausa/Fulani identity.
