(O)KAN recent works by VILLAGER

In (O)KAN: a solo exhibition of recent collage works, Nigerian-born International Transdisciplinary Artist VILLAGER activates this linguistic multiplicity to explore the fragile and fluid relationship between language, memory, and meaning. In this evocative series of works on paper, VILLAGER uses found objects like forks and combs to inscribe textured foundations into the collage by grafting the acrylic surface with vibrational marks of energetic potential. These abstract sites become ground for uncovering the layered architectures of memory. The image-making process of selecting, deconstructing, and reassembling found images from old books, magazines, and catalogs results in a visual language that reflects the ambiguity and contradiction at the heart of mourning and mending.

By weaving together personal histories, lived experiences, and ancestral mythologies through collage and drawing, (O)KAN,  emerges as a recursive act of remembering. It is an intimate intervention–a revisiting, rewriting, and reimagining of personal and collective memory that traces the looping echoes of grief, loss, love, and…