- Medium
- Mixed media on canvas
- Size
- Enquire
- Year
- 2026
- Edition
- Original · 1 of 1
Details
A woman in a tall red gele and a red mermaid gown is caught mid-step, turning towards the viewer, red trailing behind the skirt where she has just spun. The skirt is still resolving out of its own movement, painted looser than the body above it, so one figure carries two speeds. Behind her a man in black agbada and cap leans his face down beside hers, his eyes closed. He is in shadow and the light is on her, and that difference assigns the parts. The ground behind them is black and flat, and the two of them are the whole occasion. Azekwoh stops her mid-turn while the red is still catching up, and the title only works from the far side of the evening: a last dance is named once it has happened. In a body of work he describes as an autobiography of Lagos told through its inhabitants, this page belongs to the woman dancing, and the man beside her attends.
