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Tarilabo Koripamo - Korita

Digital Artist

Bio

I love to create and be a part of creation. While I was in the US I worked mostly as a theater ac-tor. I found it very fulfilling. wining the best Stage combatant actor in 2015. However, I always loved to draw and paint. I knew I wanted to sell my work so, at the beginning of 2020 I started my online
Store. My work aims to speak to your imagination. KBK combines colors and shapes in the most natural and abstract form. Inspired from my combined experiences from my Nigerian upbringing and my time in the US, these pieces of artwork tell unique and powerful stories all the time. As I share my heart with you through my art, I would also like to share two missions dear to me. With help as a buyer, I may be able to support this mission; The most pressing being the rehabilita-tion of underage sexually assaulted Girls in Nigeria. In 2015 UNICEF reported that 6 out of 10 sexual assaults reported in Nigeria were underage. With every work sold, KBK will donate 10 percentage of the profits to foundations set on rehabilitating victims of underage sexual abuse in Nigeria. I would love to set up a foundation through selling my art. A foundation primarily bent on the rehabilitation of underage sexual abuse as well as domestic violence in Nigeria. The ultimate goal is to uplift women who are socially handicapped because of culture and social ex-pectations. I would like through my art to elevate people who share and identify with these struggles.
My art style depends on my mood. I’ve always personally disliked mass-produced art so I take it very seriously in creating with colors that provoke texture, and spark conversation. I love colors and I want my work to always speak for itself without being overbearingly loud.
I am a Nigerian. My art explores the reclaiming of the Nigerian woman's sexuality, the need for liberation of self. My story as an artist is simple; bodies are beautiful not to be sexualized at the expense of culture. that is why my art has alot of bright vast colors. these colors usually express the abundance of individuality a Nigerian woman has. In a world where the eradication of Fe-male genital mutilation was eradicated as late as 2015, the need to oppress women in Nigeria starts from an early age. These artworks are an expression of how far we need to go push on the cultural reset of the Nigerian Woman.

Artworks

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