Some titles do all the work before you’ve even seen the canvas. “She Reads the News Too” is one of them.
There’s a long, tired history of women — especially Black women — being painted, photographed, and written about as decoration. Beautiful, still, ornamental. Present in a room but somehow absent from its conversations. Eneyi Oruwari’s two-piece series pushes back against that quietly but firmly: she reads the news too. She has opinions on the world. She is not just observed — she observes.
It’s a small phrase carrying a lot of weight, and that’s very much in keeping with the themes running through Eneyi’s broader practice: identity, coexistence, the relationship between people and the histories they inherit. A painting about a woman reading a newspaper sounds almost mundane until you sit with why that image needed painting at all — because for so long, depictions of women in art left the newspaper out of the frame entirely.
Both pieces in the series currently live in the gallery as part of Eneyi’s Acrylic collection, each a standalone original. Whether you’re building a collection that centers women’s interiority or simply found yourself nodding at the title before you’d even processed the image, these are pieces worth spending real time with.
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