In what’s coming 4 them is coming 4 U, Chioma Ebinama unfolds a singular cosmogony where swans with human features, spectral bees, and melancholic animals inhabit a pictorial and symbolic space suspended between mysticism and play. With watercolour, gouache, coffee and sumi ink on delicate Khadi paper, Ebinama constructs a poetic territory informed by African precolonial philosophies, Christian iconography, and the inner landscapes of dreams and childhood. The figures emerge translucent, imbued with emotional and spiritual resonance, occupying a dimension where the fragility of paper becomes the skin of a vision. Her work does not dictate doctrine but opens paths: it listens to the world rather than naming it, turning the apocalypse into an occasion for transformation. The textile sculpture of a fallen dog, soft and intimate, speaks of mourning, companionship and the shared need for gentle presence. Echoing Revelation without resorting to fear, Ebinama reclaims the eschatological not as an end, but as a threshold of empathy and affective re-enchantment. In this aesthetic of tenderness, imagination becomes an ethical tool—a way of caring, of staying porous in a hardened world. Her visual narrative resists linearity, inviting the viewer to inhabit the paintings as if entering a sanctuary where myth and care are intertwined. By doing so, the artist offers a model of vision and attention that is both radical and intimate, where personal cosmologies refuse to be fixed and instead become modes of being-with-others across time, memory and dream. Ebinama's exhibition is thus not a message, but a reverberation, a lyrical call to imagine otherwise, beyond fear, through creation.
