Peonies, Poppies, and Roses, Mia Ghogho, 2022
Mia Ghogho's West African familial lineage and lived experience between rural Mississippi and suburban Chicago, as well as her frequent travels through West Africa serve as impetus in creating scenes of stillness and ordinary pleasures of daily life.
Mia Ghogho is an interdisciplinary artist exploring narratives rooted in metamorphosis by way of tradition breaking and subsequently, building. Her work explores visual and material cultures of agrarian communities throughout the African diaspora. Her West African familial lineage and lived experience between rural Mississippi and suburban Chicago, as well as her frequent travels through West Africa serve as impetus in creating scenes of stillness and ordinary pleasures of daily life. Embracing fragmented identity as a channel for myth making, her studio practice oscillates between painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, and collage.