ade adekola

artist statement

My work explores themes of perception, repetition, and cognitive reflections. It also addresses elements of the paradoxical.

 

I explore perception to blur the boundary between the real and the imagined. In altering the perceived reality captured in a photograph I invite the mind to commence on an imaginative journey of reflection. I use repetition as a means of creating paradoxes. Repetition is fascinating. It is on the one hand an expression of the mundane and predictable, a desperate and manic desire for consistency. Then, on the other it is a means of creating a phase shift, like the rhythmic pulsing of a mantra, a calling to look beyond the
obvious. These kinds of constructs creates a tension between the static nature of recognition and the inherent dynamism present in every act of recollection. My work
exploits this tension.

 

The paradoxical is really my staging post, the muses calling to play and an invitation to create metaphors for expression. Once expressed they belong to you the viewer, and are an invitation to access emotions created from your own reflections. I hope the work gives you as much joy as it has given me in creating it.

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