My solo show all works on paper: “Dark side of the moon”, opens in London, June 4th @bleur_art gallery.
Here are some new drawings and a small painting which will be on view. See you in June.
Soldier 🌍 Bal d’Afrique @officialbyredo
My work “fragments of memories” will be on view at the @officialbyredo Covent Garden flagship store. The works will be ever changing with new paintings added over 12 months.
MIMESIS:
From the Greek mimeisthai:
To imitate, to become.
This body of 70 works on paper begins through a fragile act of translation: images are lifted, transferred, and reconstituted through the slow leaking of ink. Each transfer is imprinted, a ghost of an image carried over, and finished with oil paint. Its clarity surrendered to the process.
The work moves within the ancient and psychological territory of mimesis, imitation not as replication but as disguise, transformation, and a form of becoming.
Across these works, found and taken images, archival war photographs, masked figures, film characters, and fragments of fractured memory are subject to repeated acts of mimicry. What emerges are not reproductions but residues: the blurred remains of things once witnessed, now reabsorbed into the paper’s porous surface.
This practice unfolds under what the artist calls Memory Camouflage: how memory hides itself in plain sight, how history survives through disguise.
On view till the 12th of December, Lagos, Nigeria @windsor.gallery
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Excited to announce my first ever solo show in Lagos, Nigeria, titled Nourishment with @windsor.gallery@thenahous
“Nourishment” traces how food, packaging, and price shaped Nigeria’s memory and survival, Through paintings, sculpture, installation and found ephemera, SOLDIER turns everyday Nigerian brands into icons of taste, scarcity, and resilience.
Opens 7th November, federal palace hotel Lagos, see you all there.
Works on paper, from my ongoing critic into migration and passports:
1.) we built their cities
2.) A lack of freedom thereof
3.) In hopes of a new life
4.)Immigrants built the world.
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