/wekæfɒre/
The multifaceted artist also known as and/or associated with Egosex, Spirit Disco, Paradise Motel, Marsuvees Black.
Born in the city of Lagos (Nigeria), Wekaforé grew up in a family of artisans and spent part of his adolescence in the Middle East, before arriving in Spain seven years ago to study fashion design. He would soon end up becoming a regular on the Barcelona cultural scene, rising as a nightlife reference with the Voodoo Club parties and his various audiovisual projects. The artist has developed a circular vision and implements this universality in all his works, from music, design, art, fashion to cinema, within a genre that he has now defined as Postmodern Surrealism.
The Wekafore fashion brand was created in-respect to the work of his grandfather who lived and died in the village and never got the chance to see fashion in city life. Fervently based on celebrating and re-incarnating the forgotten glories of that era in Lagos and other west-african cities alike after colonisation.
Wekaforé’s design idiom explores on the re-interpretation of urban african style prior to Americanisation. Delicately mixing an array of fabrics and placing subtle feminine elements into comfortably-active ready to wear men's clothing and finding beauty in masculine femininity with womenswear. Retracting black masculinity and femininity in the city life to its early days while developing a unique aesthetic based on nostalgia and the reinvention of negritude, as seen through the lenses of legendary African photographers like Malick Sidibe & Seydou Keita, Showcasing and educating the public to a different side to black African culture that has been forgotten.
Wekafore began his movie with 'Rainbow' a 2022 Netflix fantasy directed by Paco León.
