Ebunoluwa Adepoju
About
I am an artist whose work sculpts the pleasurable potency of touch. I do not posit pleasure as an entirely positive sensation. More so, the realisation of a discernment of sensation- contact, and thus an ability to determine criticality and movement.
I prioritise texture and material over prescribed modes and disciplines. Sound, clay, ink, dirt- these are some of the methods I use for speculating felt realities; works that are ghostly footprints in soiled paper.
I draw parallels between seemingly juxtaposing materials in various states of matter. Interacting mounds of clay with assemblage (plastic) objects, sound in wet, painterly verse. I view touch as a material interface that traverses conceptions of tangibility. With haptics, I am able to suggest the horrors of knowing, un-knowing and re-knowing discarded material bodies and their interactions. I am interested in exploring the histories and present of ‘discard’- disembowelled material within and beyond the Anthropocene.
My works invoke the sensual suggestion of horror, figurative and expressive as they interrogate and perform. I hope to re-image, display and feel my own material body.
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