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Exploring a panoply of diasporic African myths (Dogon, Igbo, and African-American), Reconstructing the Primordial House is the debut LA solo show of the multidisciplinary artist Mikael Owunna. In the space of Iris Project, Owunna presents a mythical reconstruction of Obi Mbu, the Primordial House of Igbo cosmology, which is a symbol of the Primordial Androgynous Blackness of space in its original pure state of monolithic harmony.

Adorning the walls are ten images from Owunna’s photographic series Infinite Essence, for which the artist leveraged his training as an engineer to build a camera …