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Aluu Prosper Chigozie

Aluu Prosper Chigozie (b. 1999) is a Nigerian contemporary artist whose practice centers on Abfillage, a distinctive technique he developed that merges abstraction, figuration, and collage. His works are layered with newspapers, photography, and paint, materials he carefully selects from his immediate environment to anchor each piece in time and place. Through this method, Prosper preserves cultural memory while interrogating how personal and collective histories intersect, overlap, and at times, conflict.

Since committing fully to his practice in 2017, Prosper has exhibited widely in Nigeria and abroad. He has held solo exhibitions at Alliance Française, Lagos, and TAC Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and participated in international group shows such as Découvertes at LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery, Côte d’Ivoire. His works also feature in the collection of Fondation Société Générale Côte d’Ivoire. In 2024, he was selected as one of the top 15 finalists for the Kuenyehia Prize and completed a residency at Villa Karo in Grand-Popo, Benin Republic.

Prosper views Abfillage as both a visual language and an archival process, one that reimagines fragments of the past while questioning present realities. His practice extends beyond aesthetics, offering audiences layered narratives that resist erasure and invite reflection on identity, culture, and memory.

Artist's Statement

Through my distinctive technique called Abfillage, a fusion of abstraction, figuration, and collage, I explore the layered intersections of memory, culture, and lived experience. By weaving together fragments of printed history, photography, and paint, I create tactile narratives that speak to both the personal and collective. Each work is an excavation of stories: a dialogue between the ephemeral and the enduring, between what is seen and what lies beneath.

My process is guided by the careful selection of newspapers and found materials from my surroundings. These fragments serve as both historical documents and visual metaphors, carrying the weight of forgotten or overlooked stories. In Abfillage, the layers are not just aesthetic, they are symbolic of the complexity of identity and the fluid boundaries between fact and memory.

This ongoing practice invites viewers to engage with the ambiguity of truth and the persistent echoes of past and present. Ultimately, my work aims to preserve, question, and reimagine the narratives that shape our collective consciousness.