Adesina Soji

Nigerian-British artist, Soji Adesina (b. 1981) is a multidisciplinary artist whose range of expression includes painting, film and photography.

With careful and deliberate use of these media, he has forged a distinct visual interpretation of his subject matter which encompasses radical experimentation with materials and technique.

The subjects in his paintings are often characterized by body dysmorphia, distortion and exaggeration. Sometimes they are afflicted and tortured and at other times brazen and confident depending on the specific issue being addressed.

Central to Adesina's work are themes on memory, visualization, observation, language, identity, globalization, sovereignty and conflict. He also attempts to make gritty sense, through the use of layered ironic humor, puns, metaphors and paradoxes of how globalization and international dynamics in conflict shape radicalization, the state, migration and sexuality.

He has participated in several group and solo exhibitions both in his home country and internationally including Art fairs in Paris, London and São Paulo. His works are in private and corporate collections around the world.

• Yaba College of Technology Yaba Lagos , Painting( 2009)

1:54 London 2022