Tender Communions
22 - 28 Apr 2024
DADA Gallery is pleased to introduce Tender Communions, a group exhibition featuring Temitope Adebowale, Kwamé Azure Gomez, Luke Francis Austin, Osione Itegboje, Precious Opara, Kofi Perry and Cameron Ugbodu.
Tender Communions locates intimacy as a cardinal site of harmony and entropy. Imbued in each artist’s work is a pervasive right to opacity, a vivification of an individual and collective ability to pull the proverbial strings on that (or the parts of self) which are concealed and revealed. In these dynamic enactments of vulnerability and holistic imagination, radical intimacy exists between identity and auto-histories, ancestral and contemporary realms, corporality and the ethereal, the quotidian and the speculative. These optic, multimedia ritualisations are concurrently figurative, penumbral, monochrome and regally adorned.
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