Toyin Ojih Odutola. U22 – Adijatu Straße
In the organizer's words:
The Hamburger Bahnhof is showing figurative drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola: the narrative portraits trace the lives of various protagonists and show everyday or monumental settings that are often interwoven with architectural details.
Ojih Odutola transforms the museum's East Cabinet into "Adijatu Street", a station on the fictional U22 metro line, to address the interplay of movement and history. Influenced by her upbringing as a West African woman in the US South, Ojih Odutola's work explores social and political dynamics through the medium of skin, the fluidity of expression and the importance of darkness and light. The artist's first solo exhibition in Germany features around 25 works on paper and canvas.
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, lives and works in New York, USA) places the human figure at the center of her work and uses traditional materials such as ink, charcoal and pastel chalk for her large-format, complex portraits. Ojih Odutola constructs complex fictional mythologies in her narrative works, challenging viewers to question power dynamics, colonial history and perceptions of African expression and sexual orientation. She has had recent exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland), SFMOMA (California, USA), Barbican Centre (UK), Whitney Museum (New York, USA) and her work was featured in the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024.
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