His choice to live in Bali influenced his material selection, but also his style which became more figurative with vibrant splashes of color and exotic characters of native naked women. (widewalls.ch)
Animated by exotic characters, outlandish landscapes, and folkloric myths, Ofili's most recent work resonates with references to the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. (davidzwirnerbooks.com)
His films make powerful use of the landscape of his home terrain, the Aveyron and Tarn province in southwest France, and they play outrageously with language, deliberately provoking incomprehension with wordplay, bizarre neologisms, and exotic character names. (filmcomment.com)