Leo Asemota

Leo Asemota

Leo Asemota (born August 10, 1967 in Edo State, Nigeria) is a contemporary artist living and working in London, England. Asemota employs photography, film and video, performance, sculpture, drawings and various progressions in an endeavour to create every inspiration.

"Spoonman" (1999) a film about reality principles explored through the life of a heroin dependent was Asemota's first work. FiTH WORK (1999-) is an on-going series with which he evolves a language for his ideas. FiTH is an acronym coined in 1999 by him meaning "fever in the head". The works from the series are unique not only in form and approach but also because there are no multiples.

One of his best known works is the year-long photographic study "Map of a City"(2001). Asemota started the project on January 1 2001 travelling indiscriminately across London City in search of the site-specific Witness Appeal boards installed by the city's Police Force in an appeal for witnesses to numerous crimes. Images from the study were published in a controversial limited edition booklet by London Borough of Camden and featured in the premiere issue of the arts journal "Magnet", which was published by Institute of International Visual Arts(inIVA) and launched at Venice Biennale in 2001.

The first work from a proposed series of three to feature Leo Asemota as a central character was The Cure Complete Works(2003). Leo Asemota is currently developing The Ens Project, the second in the series. He has also received awards and grants from Artsadmin and London Arts.

In 2004, Asemota was one of fourteen artists profiled in the book "Performing Difference", published by Artsadmin. ISBN 0-9524337-2-9

On invitation from Lisa Goldman, artistic director of award winning theatre company The Red Room, Asemota created video installations and a portfolio of photographic portraits of Hoxton residents for the site-specific production Hoxton Story which opened at Hoxton Hall, to sold out performances on September 10, 2005.

External links

* [http://www.iniva.org/archive/project/47 inIVA Projects - Magnet ]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2038636 Internet Movie Database - Leo Asemota]
* [http://www.theredroom.org.uk/hoxton.htm The Red Room - Hoxton Story]


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  • The Cure Complete Works — Leo Asemota’s The Cure Complete Works (2003) is the first in a succession of three planned projects featuring the artist. The collection is made up of several drawings, photographs, sculptures, artist s book and a 33 minute film titled Cult, in… …   Wikipedia

  • Hoxton Story — is an epic and poetic multi plot fable marking the 10th Anniversary of the multi award winning theatre company The Red Room.InspirationHoxton was put on the cultural and media map in the 1990s for its fame as a groovy district of loft apartments… …   Wikipedia

  • The Ens Project — is a multi media work by Leo Asemota abstracted from the culture of ritual of the Edo people of Benin. Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s essay [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm The Work of Art in… …   Wikipedia

  • Hoxton Hall — Infobox Theatre name = Hoxton Hall caption = Hoxton Hall, still an active community resource address = 130 Hoxton Street city = Hackney, London country = designation = Grade II* latitude = 51.5318 longitude = 0.0802 architect = James Mortimer… …   Wikipedia

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