Anne Adams is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, collage, photography and video. She is from Southern Kaduna State of Nigeria. Her sculptures are anthropomorphic, existing in a perennial state of transit, reflecting the fluidity of time and space, the ambiguity of being, and the ongoing negotiation of selfhood in a complex interconnected world. Adams’s practice investigates and explores hybridity, reflecting on the nuances of identity and identity formation within a post-colonial, post-human and post-feminist framework. In her work, she sees the potential for everything to be and exist in multiples, embracing plurality and rejecting monolithic/homogenous narratives of truth, reason and identity. In this way, she creates work that embodies transcending and evolving in-between dimensions of the past, present and future, human/nonhuman, abstract and figural, self and the other.

She is interested in the histories of people, cultural practices, cultural redefinition, and hybridization as a means of sustainability in the evolution and trajectory of societies. Drawing inspiration from the legacy of precolonial Nigerian art, her work is a celebration of the profound mastery and intellectual ingenuity of her predecessors, whose use and intentionality are still enigmatic and open to interpretation, which itself is a mirror for the artist to story tell and imagine possible futures.