CURATOR : Catalina Peña
OBJECTS IN MOTION WILL STAY IN MOTION (An in depth conversation with the Ori) is a high-frequency sensory and symbolic zone that invites us to resonate with that of our spiritual intuition called "Ori" in Yoruba cosmogony. Literally meaning "head", this metaphysical concept guides French-Nigerian artist Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya's reflections on the question of individuality, and accompanies him right through to the production processes of his recent works.
Working on ways of approaching the invisible, Kevin-Ademola maintains a spiritual and symbolic relationship with the image, itself inseparable from the material. Seashells, tree bark, leaves, sacred materials born from the bowels of the earth and collected by the artist during his most recent trip to Nigeria, as well as salvaged objects are all signs, in his works, of the historical, socio-cultural and political dynamics of Yoruba cosmogony.
Kevin-Ademola's works are discovered in a ritual: that of the exhibition. On the first floor, the works Eshu no bi Satani and Idols and Worshipers reveal reflections on the political place of Yoruba divinities in a contemporary context.
Alongside them, heads with blurred, fleeting features whisper in the deep, calm darkness of the forest from Balikisu Sungbo to Oke Eri (Untitled Balikisu Sungbo #1 and #2), shaped by crushed, boiled and dried leaves. Like Plato's myth of the cave, but this time inverted, as we descend the stairs of Galerie La La Lande, the floating heads of the Untitled series echo the artist's introspective journey in his video installation An indepth conversation with the Ori, and witness with us the myth of incarnation in Ifa's The Experience of Matter.