Between Kayode Ojo’s desire-oriented sculptures and the undulating compositions of Loïc Raguénès, this booth vibrates between assemblages by the ready-made connoisseur and allusions to the painter’s musical proclivities.

Kayode Ojo sources materials from online vendors then “auditions” his dresses, instruments, jewelry, and other wares once they arrive. After the objects make the cut, he moves through the structuralization process with a marked sagacity. Each work is injected with Ojo’s proclivity for balancing suggestions of violence, obsessive patterns, and aspects of luxury. His constant allusions to and sublimations of the latter are particularly present, as the ready-mades associate with opulence without entirely submitting to it. This engages the viewer in dialogue with industry and aesthetics. Music stands, too, imitate the format of a body, which Ojo dresses in wigs and shimmering products.

As Jarod Annis writes, “Satie wasn’t out to replace reality; he just subverted the one that was already in place.” Loïc Raguénès works under similar conditions, adopting aspects from an ever-changing environment and laboring to achieve a subjective encapsulation of his visual world. His sensitivity toward mark-making and the minimality of forms errs on the romantic and brutal at once. The wave patterns lodged in music and those that decorate the coastal town of Raguénès's final home in Brittany, FR are represented across these strong tempera compositions.

Kayode Ojo (Born 1990 Cookeville, USA) lives and works in New York, USA.
He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2012.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at 52 Walker, New York; Von Ammon Co., Washington, DC; Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice; Sweetwater, Berlin; Martos Gallery, New York; Praz- Delavallade, Los Angeles; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Kayode Ojo will have a solo exhibition at Sweetwater, Berlin in 2024.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; Bortolami, New York; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, Magenta Plains, New York; Perrotin, New York; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Vassell, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; M+B, Los Angeles; Morán Morán, Mexico City; Tureen, Dallas; Fernberger, Newport; 56 Henry & Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong; Galleria Poggiali, Milan; 032c, Berlin; Mercedes-Benz Contemporary, Berlin; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; and the 7th edition of the Athens Biennale.

Kayode Ojo’s work belongs to the collections of MOCA Museum of Contemporary Arts; Los Angeles Studio Museum, Harlem New York; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; and the CSS Hessel Museum of Art, New York.
 
Loïc Raguénès (1968 Besançon, FR; 2022 in Douarnenez, FR) lived and worked in Douarnenez, FR.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Dole; Musée François Pompon, Saulieu; Circuit, Lausanne; Galeria Zero, Milan; Patrick de Brock, Knokke; and C L E A R I N G New York, Beverly Hills, and Brussels.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at Le Consortium, Dijon; de Appel, Amsterdam; Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes; Villa Arson, Nice; Casino Luxembourg; FRAC Ile de France, Paris; Aquitaine, and Bordeaux; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; and David Zwirner.

Loïc Raguénès’s work is part of the collections of Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; FRAC Ile de France; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne; and FRAC Bourgogne.

Frieze LA 2024

Kayode Ojo Loïc RaguénèsBOOTH A15

Kayode Ojo
Loïc Raguénès
BOOTH A15