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In an ongoing solo exhibition in an Abuja-based gallery, the leading female ballpoint pen artist Jacqueline Suowari extends her exploration of the subtleties of the human body language while examining the conflict between the public persona and the masked inner self. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports Preening herself before a mirror, a respectably dressed youngish lady contemplates her reflection. Now, what could she possibly have in common with her reflected scantily-clad alter ego? It is obvious: she is being tugged at from one end by an aspect of her life, which she would rather not expose to public view. It is this aspect of her life that the artist Jacqueline Suowari labels the “inside life” in an apparent nod to the slang popularised by the Nigerian musician Naira Marley in his song “Soapy”. As for the mixed-media painting, produced like others with ballpoint pen, ink, acrylic, gold leaf and cloth on archival paper, she titles it “Red Room Dialogue”. An

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