Cleanse with Salt Water’ draws elements from his personal religious practice of Igbe as well as encounters with religious rites from the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria — particularly in their worship of the Olokun and Osun deities. Exploring movement as performance and veneration, Otega evokes the cleansing and protective power of saltwater and native chalk in solemn ritual in an attempt to purify and recenter the body while also challenging the reductive fetishisation of indigenous African traditional religions that demonises and threatens to erase these practices.