Odinakachi Okoroafor

A Glass of Water, 2025

Medium: Mixed media (silkscreen and acrylics) on canvas
Dimensions: 100 × 90 cm
Bidding opens at: €5,500

In A Glass of Water, Odinakachi Okoroafor turns towards an ordinary, intimate moment: a seated figure, a domestic interior and the simple presence of a glass of water. Pattern moves across clothing, furniture and floor, embedding the body within its surroundings rather than separating figure from environment. The scene is quiet, yet this quietness carries particular weight within Okoroafor’s wider engagement with the Black body as a bearer of memory, experience and layered histories.

Rather than presenting identity through rupture or displacement, Okoroafor approaches belonging through the possibility of being at ease. The work draws attention to something fundamental: the ability to occupy a space, to rest within it, to be cared for and recognised without having to negotiate one’s presence.

Within Negotiating Belonging, A Glass of Water brings the question of belonging into the everyday. It suggests that belonging is not only determined by geography, heritage or the histories we carry, but also by the conditions that allow us to feel safe enough to simply be. The domestic space becomes a place in which belonging is experienced physically and emotionally – through familiarity, recognition, care and the quiet assurance that one has a place within it.

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Bidding on this work opens at €5,500.

The highest pre-bid becomes the price this work opens at on 4 October. If no one in the room bids higher, it is yours at that price.

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