Wanger's portraits in her series entitled “Interwoven Realities” highlight the links between the members of the same community.
Wanger Ayu is a visual artist and a fashion designer born in 1986 in Jos, Nigeria. Her medium combines the use of the Tiv a'nger fabric with painting, printmaking, transfer and collage.
With a law degree from Exeter University and a fashion design degree from ESMOD, she launched her brand to immediate success, including two nominations for the Future Awards in fashion. Her transition to studio practice began in 2017 after a surgery left her immobilized. Art became her therapy and escape, granting her freedom. Wanger currently lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, where she is inspired by the soul of the city and a deeply curious mind.
Wanger's portraits in her series entitled “Interwoven Realities” highlight the links between the members of the same community. They are all different but linked by the threads of community and materiality represented on the backdrop of the Tiv a'nger cloth - that Wanger uses as a medium -. Illuminated by a bundle of symbols that each interprets and appropriates, the characters are revealed by the color and look at us intensely.