About

Fadekemi Ogunsanya is a multi-disciplinary Nigerian artist based in the UK. Born in 1995. She paints cathartic emotional landscapes, scenes concerned with the ineffable questions of love, joy, suffering, and loss. Having grown up within a patriarchal Yoruba family structure, Ogunsanya exposes another side to this world. Her work carries a complex awareness of womanhood and the covert power of female alliances within such traditional structures. Infused with mythological references - indigo, a colour steeped in cosmic significance within Yoruba culture, animates this world. Ogunsanya's subjects exude a quiet confidence and exist somewhere between portraits and imagination, a collection of faces and spirits intertwined, sharing profound bonds of mutual reinforcement.