The Cure Complete Works
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Leo Asemota’s The Cure Complete Works (2003) is the first in a succession of three planned projects featuring the artist. The collection is made up of several drawings, photographs, sculptures, artist's book and a 33-minute film titled Cult, in its exploration of ideas in history, culture, religion and identity.
The film Cult premiered in an exhibition titled Motion Pictures (2003) at 198 Gallery in London. The show was a special 3-day screening of Asemota's films from 1999 - 2003.
The Cure Complete Works opened at The Fount Gallery in 2004 and was presented in three experiences. The first experience consisted of 3 sculptures in wood, sugar and leather, 15 drawings of Electronic Symbols mounted on wood with copper, 4 Colour photographs and 20 Colour Polaroid photographs. This prefaced the viewing of the second experience, Cult, the 33 minute film of many-valued logic on the prevailing themes in the collection. The highlight of the film is the transformation of its subject of devotion played by Asemota, into the final product. The third and final experience is FiTH WORK NO.23: THE CURE, a life size colour photograph that is conceptually, a print of the last undisclosed frame in the film Cult.
The Cure Complete Works proposes the black body as a symbol of many qualities that are inseparable from all things good, great and evil that has shaped our world. These include wealth, religion, slavery, theatricality and rebirth whilst at the same time proffering a world history that is not unique to race. Familiar symbols and objects feature in the works; their materials and form are engaged in interplay between the idea and its subject matter.
