Ilẹ̀kẹ́ Ifẹ̀

Medium

Giclée on paper

Year

2026

Ilẹ̀kẹ́ Ifẹ̀, meaning The Lover’s Beads, offers an unusual cropped composition, the frame contains only a female figure from the waist down, standing with feet hip-width apart and hands on hips, wearing an elaborate layered iro wrapper in deep rose silk. At the waist beneath the wrapper’s edge, the top strand of traditional Yoruba waist beads is barely visible, present but not displayed. From those hidden beads, a faint thread of rose-coloured light traces a perfect circle around the waist, the beads felt rather than seen, their presence rendered as light on fabric and air. This intimate and quietly sensual mixed media fine art print is Giclée printed on museum quality 310gsm Textured Fine Art Cotton Rag, limited to just 20 prints in the world. A nuanced and beautiful Nigerian painting about private language and the body that speaks it, available at Naija Art Store.