With Eva Seck, Kunsthalle Basel invited us to a special writing workshop in the exhibition “Ilé Oriaku” by Toyin Ojih Odutola. Eva Seck writes poetry, prose, and for the stage, showing us how to express our impressions of the artworks.
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s works suggest she is part storyteller and part theatre-maker. She uses pencil, charcoal, and pastel to create inspiring pictorial narratives. At moments when words seem inadequate, other forms of expression come to the fore and enable a powerful connection, which she depicts in her haunting visual worlds.
The results were presented as part of a reading on the exhibition’s last day.
Eva Seck
Eva Seck, born and raised in Rheinfelden in 1985, completed her commercial apprenticeship and then studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and the University of Lausanne. She writes poetry, prose, and for the stage and works in various constellations at the interface between music, art, performance, and mediation. Her first volume of poetry “sommer oder wie sagt man” was published by Wolfbach Verlag in 2015. She lives with her family in Basel.