"As a multidisciplinary artist, exploring the creative nuance form and relives a sense of capture within me”
(Gb'yega)
Artist Statement
Art and moving imagery have always mesmerized Stevén Gb'yega Fajana since his youth, the infinite mix and variations. I have not been courageous enough to pursue this vocation wholeheartedly. Now I am stepping into this as an 'Unresolved artist".
Living in London but is of Nigerian descent and has received his Master’s in Design and Media Arts from the University of Westminster. He is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist. His are in photography, painting, video, moving images and dance on screen. All these, are interwoven to explore the visual gesture and the narrative possibilities presented in a type of “galleria and creative nuance”.
His earlier works are dance on-screen artist films, employing movement and dance, moving imagery as the protagonist. This correlates to space and presentation, defining the spatial boundaries with the fugitive body in a gesture which would relate well to the act of participating in spatial dance scenography.
Stevén' started as a dancer but has always been fascinated with the dialogue between the visual nuance and the elusive pronounce' in the artistic form. His moving image works have been screened and exhibited both nationally and on international platforms.
His African identity and childhood memories stimulate the creative space. Drawing influence from different artistic media and artists like Ben Enwonwu, Isaac Julien, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Joan Miro, Young-Deok Seo etc.
His art concentrates on the process with the visual narrative nuance by employing the available medium as a vessel to convey the story for each art piece.
Exhibition Group
Art Number 23, Virtual New Era VI, Greece. A Skull Full of Beans' 1-31 March 2022
ArtBox Project – World 2.0, Zurich, Switzerland. | ‘Dig-nificant Metamorph’ 1 Feb – 4 Mar 2022.
The Body Language, ItsLiquid Group, Venice, Italy | ‘Dig-nificant Metamorph’27 Jan – 18 Feb 2022.
Capital Culture House, Madrid- Spain. Online exhibition | ‘Dig-nificant Metamorph’ Dec 2021.
Athens Open Art. Art Number 23 Gallery | Athens ‘Skull Full of Beans' September 2021 &
ArtBox Projects, Zurich, Switzerland | 'Skull Full of Beans' August 2021.
SeeMe. social media platforms | “The Creators Deserve to be Seen Solo Show In NY” 2016.
Stories Within Images at SCOPE Art Fair. Miami, USA 2015.
SeeMe I Exhibition Space. The Story of the Creative, New York, USA. 2013.
Dance on Screen screening/festivals
Other voices. Tanz Atelier Wien installation, Austria. 2010
Inside Window V.2 - Mannequins: Danca em Foco, Videodanca MIV Rio, Brazil. 2008
Glass Perspex: American dance festival, NY, USA,2007. Montage Video Dance Festival, South Africa. 2008
Prelude to a flight: Monaco Dance Film Festival, Grimaldi, France 2003. Berlinale Festival - Talent Campus, Germany. 2003. Dance on Screen Festival, The Place Theatre. London UK. 2003
Inside Window V.1: Dance on screen: Open Forum, UK, 2002
Wuthering Society: Gulbenkian Foundation installation, UK. 2003
Locker Room dance: Il Coreografo Elettronico, XII Napoli, Italy, 2004. Curzon cinema. London, UK. 2004. Tanz Atelier Wien installation, Austria.
INSTALLATIONS
* Audimax. Campus Krems, Austria. 2009
* Emotion festival, Mandal, Norway 2004.
PRESS/HONOURABLE MENTIONED
* Honourable mention Norway 2003, Mandal district Lindesnes and the Fedrelandsvennen.
* American Dance Festival, dance symposium 2007, Scotland – mentioned and one of the selected videos for the symposium.
