An Interview with Monolith Gallery Founder Chikai Ohazama
Do you’re feeling any kind of obligation past merely choosing stuff that you simply like?
The concept that I’ve any opinion that issues in any respect is known as a unusual phenomenon for me. Like after I began a 12 months in the past no person cared what I stated, I might tweet one thing and one particular person, my pal, would love it and that was it. That isn’t the best way it’s at present. It’s one thing I’m making an attempt to embrace and worth and use for good—to focus on artists or assist folks. It’s much less obligation however extra of simply ethos and values. I do worth range, I do worth multicultural backgrounds, I do worth listening to tales from internationally. That has at all times been the case for my interactions with the group so when it got here time to have folks submit work they ended up being numerous by way of backgrounds. I positively attempt for it however it’s one thing that’s taking place naturally due to how I’ve constructed my group. I had a lot of Nigerian artists apply for exhibition 1 at Monolith, it was wonderful.
My objective for curation is to not say what’s good or dangerous, what’s artwork or not. All I need is for folks to inform a very good story. And I need to share tales that are as numerous as attainable, the broadest image I can paint, to say the world is way greater than you may assume once you look exterior your door.
