“A Chapter of My Life Across Frontières” is Mr Danfo’s first exhibition in Lomé, the capital of Togo, and it was organized by Galerie d’Art Contemporain Africain, Lomé.
The exhibition was characterized by the intrigues of city life, people, places, and sociocultural hybridity, which the artist had experienced beyond the confines of his city (Lagos). The body of work exhibited captured the multifarious elements of people in various countries and the unification of human existence despite existing geographical borders.
In the new body of work, Mr Danfo celebrates the Nana Benz women of Togo, Esther Malungu of South Africa, and the Bambara ladies selling across Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal borders. Also in the collection was a piece titled “Ma Mére Cèline”. The artist had met an amazing Swiss woman who treated him like her son during my residency in Geneva, Switzerland, named Cèline, and in Lomé, Togo met another sweet soul who was his French teacher, and she was also Cèline. They both won a spot in his heart and he made a piece depicting himself carried on their back as their baby.
Other important pieces in the collection were “Our Lady of Danfo Drivers”, “Yellow Sisi”, “Area Mama”, “Oko Ashawo” and more. All the artworks in the collection share a similar brilliant energy with exciting colours and represent contemporary life in pure geometry. The works are abstract enough that they cannot be confined to any country's border, as such a border is nonexistent in the artist’s creative process. His colours are very symbolic and non-political and
the paintings are even executed to consciously blur the boundaries that exist within the arts.