Bunmi Agusto

DADA Gallery is pleased to announce Bunmi Agusto’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Lands of the Living’, open from 26 March to 7 April 2024. The exhibition features mixed-media works on paper continuing the artist’s world-building practice that follows life in her fantastical paracosm known as ‘Within’.

Using a combination of painting, drawing and printmaking, Agusto juxtaposes opaque drawn figures with translucent printed images in order to explore the relationship between the physical and unseen metaphysical forces. With art historical references to ancient mythologies, Surrealism, the Zaria Art School and the semiotics of comic books, her works come together to narrate a magical tale that depicts death as transition and afterlife as simply another form of life. She draws from overlapping elements across Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Yoruba religious ideologies —such as the concept of axis mundi and the positions of the heavens and earth— to introduce a geometric logic to the nature of existence.

‘Lands of the Living’ marks Bunmi Agusto’s first solo exhibition since the completion of her MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford where she was awarded the Mansfield-Ruddock Prize and her inclusion in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023. The New Contemporaries exhibition is currently open at Camden Art Centre until 14 April 2024.

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