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Rele Gallery Lagos presents Making Face, a group exhibition featuring works by Kainebi Osahenye, Alimi Adewale, Bolaji Ogunrosoye, Jimi Agboola, Soji Adesina and Plantation ( Ayomide Tejuoso).
The exhibition presents a range of perspectives across media and stylistic focus on portraiture and figuration, offering shifting considerations on ‘face’.
Over the centuries, amidst a culture of looking and being seen, the human form has served as subject to varied forms of representation and identification.
In exploring the social roles and identities of individuals and groups, the body has been quietly observed and meticulously staged, constantly situated against changing backdrops and evolving contexts.
From the painted portrait to photography, video and other new media forms, artists have employed various viewpoints — from the singular to the layered — in exploring likeness. In modern times, amidst growing globalisation and the Internet era, it has become increasingly difficult to understand or define the individual or collective from the singularity of a viewpoint. John Berger’s assertion that ‘we can no longer accept that the identity of a man can be adequately established by preserving and fixing what he looks like from a single viewpoint in one place’ forms an important point of departure for Making Face.
Engaging loosely with the art of portraiture, Making Face imagines acts of representation and terms of recognition of the image. The image here is both static and evolving, a constantly moving bricolage of experiences and landscapes.
