{"id":12906,"date":"2019-04-24T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/ayo-akinwande\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T09:43:46","slug":"ayo-akinwande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/ayo-akinwande\/","title":{"rendered":"Ay\u1ecd\u0300 Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_separator color=”black”][vc_column_text]Ay\u1ecd\u0300 Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9 is a contemporary Nigerian artist born and based in Lagos. Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9\u2019s practice is multi-disciplinary, experimenting with lens based media, installation, sculpture, performance and sound to explore concepts of identity, duality and the multi-faceted layers of the human reality.<\/p>\n

His artistic process involves constant monologues and dialogues on socio-political realities in his environment while the subsequent presentations incorporate architectural processes in a spatial detailing and sectioning of these ideas and thoughts to evoke both intimacy and the monumentality.<\/p>\n

Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9 co-curated the 2017 Lagos Biennial and was also a participating artist at the exhibition held at the Nigerian Railway Museum. He was selected for the 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennial and was part of the \u201cChinafrika-under construction\u201d exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Leipzig.<\/p>\n

He is a contributor to the book \u201cASIKO: On the Future of Artistic and Curatorial Pedagogies in Africa\u201d by the Centre for Contemporary Arts Lagos. His works and writings have been featured in Art Africa, Dienacht Magazine, PoetsArtists, Contemporary&, The Sole Adventurer, SomethingWeAfricansGot and other journals and publications around the world. Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9 is a 2018 ArtX Prize finalist and a Top10 finalist at the 2018 ABSA L\u2019Atelier Art competition with his work forming part of the exhibition at the ABSA Gallery. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across Africa and beyond.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1567159075981-95d983e2-40b1-5″ include=”12885,12887,12889,12891,12893,12895,12897,12899″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[241,286],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolios","tag-2019-en","tag-previous"],"yoast_head":"\nHANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Ay\u1ecd\u0300 Ak\u00ednw\u00e1nd\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. 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