Lola Olufemi: Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Roe Ethridge Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Iwona Blazwick

Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be

examples of Kruger’s classic 1980’s paste-ups and stills from her immersive film Twelve

Chicago (2015)

Lola Olufemi: Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Roe Ethridge Irish Museum of Modern ArtHajar Press, 2021, Softcover, 146 pages, 20 13 cm This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine. In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and