Ifa Lokubuka is a visual art exhibition focusing on the black female body as a space of memory and transformation. It combines drawing, painting, and sculpture to explore the impact of white supremacy and patriarchy on personal and communal experiences, examining how these influences are internalized and transmitted through generations. Through various materials, the exhibition explores themes of erasure and emergence. It emphasizes process, vulnerability, and the ongoing nature of creation, presenting unlearning as a resistance and viewing artmaking as a deliberate act of reclaiming agency over the black female body.

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The exhibition explores the dual nature of oppression, highlighting how it is both externally enforced and absorbed in domestic settings through acts of care, beauty, and surveillance. It presents the body as an archive and battleground, using imagery of marks and erosion as metaphors for memory and trauma. The artwork reflects the instability of identity through themes of fragmentation and transformation, emphasizing the body's ongoing processes of leaking, dissolving, and reforming.
Slowness is a key element in the conceptual framework, emphasizing the artist's processes over capitalist productivity. It values accident, failure, and time, paralleling the material interactions of ink, water, and bleach with psychological and social themes of erasure, internalization, and re-emergence.

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