Artists

Chloé Quenum, Moufouli Bello, Ishola Akpo, Romuald Hazoumè

Press release

National Participation - Benin (Republic of) // New Participation

The exhibition is entitled "Everything Precious is Fragile", which draws inspiration from Yoruba Gèlèdè philosophy and through which we address some of the most urgent contemporary global ecological concerns. The selected artists, Hazoumè, Quenum, Akpo, and Bello, present works that complement each other, forming an essential solo presentation highlighting the fragility and resurgence of indigenous wisdom with a focus on the return to mother nature – rematriation – that is fundamental to thinking about a more wholesome existence for the world at large. Through the exhibition we challenge epistemic injustice of the silencing of indigenous voices world over.

Commissioner: José Pliya
Curator: Azu Henry Nwagbogu