Mapping Structures: Across Worlds
The exhibition brings together artists whose work engages with the idea of physical space and architecture through processes of geometric abstraction and distortion of three-dimensional space. Presenting the experience of space as a dynamic, often volatile construct grounded in the relationships between various compositional parts, the exhibition is focused on formally engaging diverse constructivist approaches to space as well as teasing out the many ways they affect our social, economic and political lives in contemporary society. How have the structures we’ve built over time contributed to or taken away from the quality of life? What role do these structures play in granting or restricting access and movement between them? What new futures can be imagined from the distortion and reconstruction of existing space?
Patrick Akpojotor
Patrick Akpojotor (b. 1982) is Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. His work is influenced by his fascination with built space and architecture and its ability to shape one’s identity. His practice explores differences in human attitude as they relate to the culture of the built environment they inhabit. Merging together visual references of built environment, geography, human forms and imagined structures, he interrogates our sense of balance and perception, challenging us to see differently.
Paul Onditi
Paul Onditi (b. 1980) is a Nairobi-based artist, whose practice challenges our understanding of cultural topography as well as the physical world in which we exist. Addressing themes of pollution, climate change, fragmented and unequal societies, and the degradation of our natural planet, Onditi composes intricate and complex masterpieces portraying societal chaos and decay on his preferred canvas of digital polyester inkjet plates.
Soo Kim
Soo Kim (b. 1969) is an LA-based artist who works with paper-based digital prints made from digital photographs to construct complex renderings of familiar places in our daily experience of the world. She is currently a professor and Program Director of Photography, and heads the Critic-in-Residence program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Kim’s work is in the public collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Broad Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.