Goodman Gallery is pleased to present new work by ruby onyinyechi amanze in her solo exhibition ‘Light Blue Violet’.

Over the past decade amanze has been building an intentional cast of characters and structural elements that populate her drawing practice. Space, architecture, and movement are also large thematic building blocks in her practice. Recent exhibitions have seen the artist translate what plays out on the paper surface into the exhibition space. amanze’s 2022 London exhibition ‘Duets’ was the first crystallisation of this approach, with the works offering a dimensionality and understanding of space that positions the artist as a choreographer. The Johannesburg show pushes this exploration, further extending the viewing experience.

amanze imagines the space in her drawings as rooms which can be physically entered. Figures and objects occupy these rooms in compositions that skew and call into question an assumed perspective. Although minor in their individual capacity, the effect of these smaller shifts produce a cumulative disorientation/reorientation. The disruption in the plane of the drawing spills out into how the artworks interact within the exhibition space.