Jack Shainman Gallery features Toyin Ojih Odutola's latest exhibition titled IleÌ Oriaku, showcasing multimedia drawings inspired by her familial and cultural roots. This show revolves around an imaginary Mbari houseâa symbolic space significant to the Nigerian Owerri Igbo community that honors both collective history and personal loss. The artist's work combines beauty and complexity, reflecting on the limitations of language while evoking both grief and resilience. The fragmented nature of her figures and spaces speaks to the challenges of expressing love and loss amidst cultural richness.
The exhibition uses multimedia drawings to explore the duality of language's beauty in processing grief and creating collective history within an imaginary Mbari house.
Ojih Odutola's artworks depict figures caught in various staged moments, merging personal narrative with cultural communion, and responding to the traditions of her Igbo and Yoruba heritage.
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