Vogue
New York Academy of Art — Tribeca Ball 2025
Precious Osamuyimen Eboigbodin featured among artists at the prestigious Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art's premier annual gala.
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From Discarded
Material to Living Spirit
The conviction behind the work
Precious grew up watching communities struggle with what to do with waste. Not as a policy problem — as a daily, physical reality. Metals corroding in yards. Objects stripped of purpose. Material accumulating at the edges of life. Not rubbish — raw material waiting to be rethought.
That instinct became a practice. And a practice became a conviction: that the act of taking something discarded and making it beautiful is itself a political and spiritual act. A refusal — to accept that thrown-away means worthless, that broken means without future.
Each sculpture is built by hand — welded, carved, cast, and refined across weeks and months. Each one carries the memory of the material it was made from, and the imagination of what it became.
The work is rooted in Nigerian and wider African identity — in the visual language of the continent, its animals, its figures, its crowns, its forms. But it speaks universally. A lion made of knives and forks is not just African. It is human. It is the question we all face: what do we do with what we no longer want?
Sustainability
Every piece is built from reclaimed and upcycled materials. Nothing virgin. Nothing wasted.
African Identity
Rooted in the visual culture, mythology, and life of the African continent.
Hand Craftsmanship
Welded, carved, and assembled entirely by hand. No two pieces alike. No shortcuts.
Transformation
Turning discarded material into beauty is not a technique. It is the message.
