Stacey Gillian Abe

Stacey Gillian Abe’s concepts highlight specific complex situations as autobiographical documentation drawn from earlier and continuous experiences, they attempt to review conventional depictions of her as a black woman by drawing focus to the mind’s suppleness. These materialize into created imaginary spaces that instigate a surreal mystical feel to the work as it probes unsettling narratives on the subject of identity, gender, spirituality, and cultural mysticism, the past, and present.

2018, Artist in Residency with the programme A visitor to Urbane Künste Ruhr, Dortmund, 2019, was awarded the Iwalewa Art award of IWALEWAHAUS Bayreuth, 2019 and is listed in the Forbes Africa 30 under 30 creatives 2018.