Bunmi Agusto

DADA Gallery is pleased to announce Bunmi Agusto’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Lands of the Living’.

The exhibition, curated by Agusto, 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 With art historical references to ancient mythologies, Surrealism, the Zaria Art School and the semiotics of comic books, her works come together to narrate a magical tale that depicts death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.

DADA Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Bunmi Agusto for the 2022 edition of 1-54 London. In this new body of work, the Spectacular Mundane...