In House: Bamidele Awoyemi And Adia Wahid

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In House: Bamidele Awoyemi and Adia Wahid is the first in a new series of duo exhibitions organised by and for Studio Voltaire’s community of studio artists and cultural tenants. The programme seeks to create a dialogue between two artists, finding points of convergence and collaboration between their practices.

In this exhibition, Awoyemi and Wahid explore the use of pattern in each of their practices. A stroke of a line. An intersection of two paths. A collection or rhythm of different markers to convey common thoughts, beliefs, knowledge and rituals. Our everyday life is littered with symbols, characters and motifs that work together to communicate and speak to us in different ways - from algorithms and languages, to visual systems in our wayfinding and even clothing - speaking to our own inherited influences and cultures.

Considering pattern as a means of creating dialogue by responding, reflecting and overlapping to create new different intensities and repeated forms, the artists collaboratively consider the cartographic and ritualistic nature of patterns, and their ability to replace words and imbue meanings visually.