Marcus Okafor

Why this artist matters now

Marcus Okafor builds large-scale ceramic and mixed-media sculptures around the material residue of migrant domestic life. Objects sourced from everyday household use are embedded within fired stoneware vessels, fusing personal archive with industrial ceramic process. Working between Lagos and New York, his forms use the permanence of kiln-fired clay against the fragility of the objects it encases, making displacement legible as physical mass and weight.