Police and Thief invokes ideas of pursuit, surveillance, power, criminality, and social tension, themes deeply resonant within both Nigerian and global urban realities. Yet, rather than illustrating a literal confrontation, Slawn approaches these themes psychologically and symbolically. expressing compressed figures which appear trapped within the white pictorial field, their exaggerated limbs, disjointed faces, and distorted bodily forms entangled in a state of perpetual motion and confusion. We are invited into this disordered but necessary world of Olaolu Slawn to see the dynamics of power criminality and social tension in visual satire
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