In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence

A summer-long group show for Luke Agada, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ludovic Nkoth, and Naila Opiangah, curated by Brice Arsène Yonkeu – whose curatorial statement defines the show as “an encounter with works on paper and paintings that move between visibility and erasure, between the surfaces of lived experience and the abstractions of memory”. It goes on: “the exhibition is less concerned with depicting bodies in their recognisable form than with asking how the body … becomes a vessel for history, inheritance, and imagination”; and “rather than presenting a singular mode of figuration or abstraction, the exhibition unfolds as a spectrum of strategies. Within this spectrum, three interwoven threads emerge: Memory and Inheritance, where surfaces register the weight of what is passed down and endured; Myth and Imagination, where hybrid or surreal forms generate new lineages; and Presence and Care, where the body is both affirmed and protected as a site of tenderness and resilience.”

To 21 September.

Above: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. Blue Fragments (2026)