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Evan Ifekoya
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“What would it mean to start from a place of abundance—rather than scarcity?” This was the question posed by Evan Ifekoya’s first solo show, which was held at London’s Gasworks gallery in 2018. The artist presented a sound work and an installation investigating the topics of polyvocality, subjectivity, authorship, and collaboration, envisaging a system that can become a community resource after the exhibition. The installation, which Ifekoya described in a meeting with Mousse, featured a “water wave ocean floor that crashes into the walls; the balloon-covered ceiling that deflates and decays over the two month period; the photograph by Ajamu X, Bodybuilder with Bra, that hasn’t been seen since 1990; and then the extended sound work playing on a soundsystem that I built with a group of people.” Their ongoing project, “A Score, A Groove, A Phantom,” explores archives of blackness, sociality and inheritance as they diffract through queer nightlife and trauma in the present moment.
Ifekoya was born in Iperu, Nigeria, in 1988. In addition to Gasworks, their recent work has been presented at: the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, and Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, among others. Recent performances have taken place at Serpentine …
“What would it mean to start from a place of abundance—rather than scarcity?” This was the question posed by Evan Ifekoya’s first solo show, which was held at London’s Gasworks gallery in 2018. The artist presented a sound work and an installation investigating the topics of polyvocality, subjectivity, authorship, and collaboration, envisaging a system that can become a community resource after the exhibition. The installation, which Ifekoya described in a meeting with Mousse, featured a “water wave ocean floor that crashes into the walls; the balloon-covered ceiling that deflates and decays over the two month period; the photograph by Ajamu X, Bodybuilder with Bra, that hasn’t been seen since 1990; and then the extended sound work playing on a soundsystem that I built with a group of people.” Their ongoing project, “A Score, A Groove, A Phantom,” explores archives of blackness, sociality and inheritance as they diffract through queer nightlife and trauma in the present moment.
Ifekoya was born in Iperu, Nigeria, in 1988. In addition to Gasworks, their recent work has been presented at: the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, and Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, among others. Recent performances have taken place at Serpentine Galleries in London and the Whitstable Biennial 2016.
Born 1988
Hometown Iperu, Nigeru
Lives and Works London, UK
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