Fadekemi

Beyond grateful for such a beautiful time shared with @loewefoundation and my wonderful co-finalists! I’m so inspired by the work being done to push craft forward all over the world. 🩵🪡🧵

Meet the finalists of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize ahead of the exhibition in Singapore this summer. One of our 30 shortlisted artists is Fadekemi Ogunsanya with the piece, ‘We Are Not Lying, Your Language Is Not Enough’. Multidisciplinary artist Fadekemi Ogunsanya is based between Lagos and London. Trained as an architect, her work explores how structure and ornament shape emotion and memory. Her paintings often extend beyond the canvas with hand-painted, laser-cut frames. Her textile practice has been a process of unlearning simplified colonial hierarchies of ‘craft’ by researching and reclaiming symbolic, cultural and mythological intelligence. Weaving together personal history and collective memory, Ogunsanya believes material, craft and storytelling can foster newfound forms of connection. National Gallery Singapore will host the Craft Prize exhibition from 13 May until 14 June 2026.

Lately in my studio 🌀

I am honoured to share that I am a finalist for the LOEWE Craft Prize 2026. My submitted work, “We Are Not Lying, Your Language Is Not Enough” draws on traditional Adire Eleko techniques, combined with embroidery and beading. I was drawn to this practice as an act of research and preservation. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute to a tradition shaped by Yoruba women, and to see it recognised on a global stage. @loewefoundation #loewecraftprize

Please join us this Sunday January 25th for an Adire workshop with @fade.0707 and @wovenbykhadija !Designed as a hands-on introduction to Adire processes and techniques, the workshop offers a structured, collaborative making experience, allowing participants to create their own patterns, explore embroidery and drawing stations, and learn the fundamentals of dyeing. All materials will be provided. Spaces are limited, please book via the link in our bio 💙

Fadekemi Ogunsanya, To Be With You, That’s All I Want, 2025 Hand-embroidered and beaded Adire quilt 167.5 x 99 cm On view @alaralagos until January 25

A Miracle is a Reasonable Thing To Ask For by Fadekemi Ogunsanya, first show of @ff_projects_ year-long residency @alaralagos 💙 Building on Ogunsanya’s continued interest in folklore, gender, and the female psyche, A Miracle is a Reasonable Thing To Ask For reimagines the Yoruba legend of Oluronbi. In the tale, Oluronbi, unable to conceive, forges a pact with Iroko, an ancient tree inhabited by a powerful spirit who grants blessings in exchange for sacrifice. She vows that if she is given a child, she will return the gift. When her wish is fulfilled, she breaks her promise, unable to surrender her first child, and is forced to reckon with the spirit of the Iroko tree. The legend confronts ideas that resonate throughout Ogunsanya’s practice, reckoning with questions of power and sacrifice, reflecting on the spiritual and emotional cost of womanhood. While Ogunsanya’s early works combined oil, gouache, and watercolor with hand-painted, carved wooden frames– collapsing the boundary between painting and sculpture– her recent turn to textiles marks a deeper engagement with her Yoruba heritage. ^ excerpted from the press release. The exhibition is on view until January 25, come see it! 💙

A Miracle is a Reasonable Thing To Ask For 🩵 So happy to show this body of work at home in Lagos! My show with @ff_projects_ is on view at @alaralagos till January 25

The making of : A Miracle is a Reasonable Thing To Ask For A true labour of love, I’m so happy to be showing these works at home in Lagos with @ff_projects_ ! Opening reception tomorrow, from 4-6pm at Alara. Show runs until January 25th 🩵

How do you use your intuition when you are creating art and what does it feel like? “A significant part of my process is intuitive. When I begin a new work, I’m drawn to images and visual languages from other mediums—film, sculpture, architecture or memory. I gather these fragments almost unconsciously and start to assemble them, layering and collaging until they begin to form a dialogue. I know the work is successful when the image feels complete—when there’s nothing left to add or remove. It’s a quiet moment of recognition, like the work has arrived where it was always meant to go.” — Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Lagos, Nigeria @fade.0707 @artistsoncouches Photo credit: Manny Jefferson @mannyjefferson #fadekemiogunsanya #artistsoncouches #onthecouch #CreativeConsciousness #ArtisticConsciousness#CreativeProcess #CreativeMind #ArtistLife #CreativeJourney #ArtAndConsciousness #ArtistCommunity #LivingArtists #ArtDocumentary #ArtistArchive

FF Projects presents A Miracle Is A Reasonable Thing to Ask For, the inaugural exhibition in its year-long residency at Alára. Travelling from its first iteration in Miami, the exhibition brings together a new body of hand-woven and intricately beaded textile works by Nigerian artist Fadekemi Ogunsanya. Opening Reception December 23 from 4-6pm. RSVP link in bio. See you there! 💙

Earlier this year, captured in my Lagos studio by the wonderful @mannyjefferson 🩵