Mining Abstractions

Lani Adeoye
Chijioke Anyacho
Jelili Atiku
Kingsley Ayogu
Adébayo Bolaji
Layo Bright
Chukwuemeka Anthony Chukwu
Yagazie Emezi
Diana Ejaita
Modupeola Fadugba
Bisila Noha
Ozioma Onuzulike
Araba Opoku
Sabastine Ugwuoke

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 24 | 6-8 PM

kó is pleased to present Mining Abstractions, a group exhibition that brings together artists who engage abstraction to decipher cultural codes, histories, and mythologies. Their works deconstruct systems of visual language through mark-making, pattern, repetition, and fluid structures. Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, and design, these artists approach abstraction as a practice of excavation, uncovering layered meanings and reshaping personal metaphors.

Some works unfold through delicate, meditative marks; others through bold, expressive gestures. Several artists draw from inherited traditions—Yoruba cosmology, Igbo Uli design, ceremonial symbols, and craft practices—infusing abstraction with cultural memory and ancestral knowledge. Others respond to the conditions of contemporary life, shaped by digital culture, diasporic movement, and the politics of visibility. Motifs such as webs, networks, and fragmented bodies evoke themes of restriction, transition, and passage. In other works, abstraction becomes a way of mapping psychological and spiritual landscapes, reflecting on legacy, loss, and transformation.

Together, these artists expand the language of abstraction—at once personal and collective, historical and contemporary, visible and obscured. Through their material gestures, they engage reshape narratives of continuity and change. 

This exhibition features Lani Adeoye, Chijioke Anyacho, Jelili Atiku, Kingsley Ayogu, Adébayo Bolaji, Layo Bright, Chukwuemeka Anthony Chukwu, Yagazie Emezi, Diana Ejaita, Modupeola Fadugba, Bisila Noha, Ozioma Onuzulike, Araba Opoku, and Sabastine Ugwuoke.

This exhibition is proudly sponsored by Le Connoisseur.