Christelle Oyiri @ Tramway Glasgow

Christelle Oyiri’s identity is shaped by the diplomatic, social, and metaphysical conflicts inherited from colonization, and the trickle-down effect it has on cultural behaviours, familial history, and the experience of a wider African diaspora. With this trauma and conflict in mind, and specifically in the context of The Ivory Coast’s 2002 military coup and ensuing war, Oyiri’s work, Gentle Battle, asks; How does warfare display itself?