OCHI is pleased to present a solo installation by Providence-based artist Africanus Okokon, whose interdisciplinary practice extends across moving image, painting, performance, sound, sculpture, and printmaking. Through strategies of montage and reassembly, Okokon investigates the mediation of cultural memory, examining how histories are layered, fragmented, and forgotten.

For Frieze Los Angeles, Okokon debuts new hybrid paintings sourced from a personal archive of images. Made with silkscreen, oil, and coconut milk that is burned to reveal subjects, these works embody both material and conceptual transformation. Functioning as individual filmic frames, some in dialogue with a video installation on view, they fuse process and narrative, gesture and afterimage. Each piece becomes an inquiry into how memory is recorded, reinterpreted, and reanimated through visual form.

Throughout the duration of the fair, the installation will be reconfigured daily, turning the booth into a temporal, performative environment. This shifting display evokes the language of animation and reflects Okokon’s sustained interest in the slippage between image and experience. The evolving presentation situates the artist’s practice within a continuum of movement, translation, and becoming.

This presentation coincides with a transformative moment for OCHI, following the gallery’s recent relocation to Melrose Hill and renewed commitment to conceptual and contemporary practices. Okokon’s project encapsulates this direction: rigorous in form, experimental in process, and expansive in thought, his work reflects the gallery’s dedication to artists who probe the boundaries of medium, narrative, and perception.