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6:00 PM
Temitayo Ogunbiyi in Conversation with Siddhartha Mitter
Talk|A public program related to Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes
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The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Price Free and open to the public
- Part of series: Temitayo Ogunbiyi at the Arts Club of Chicago
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s practice explores the relationship between the environment, line, and representation. Moving between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, her work responds to and forges dialogues between global current events, anthropological histories, and botanical cultures. Systems that capture, mediate, and direct the movement of people and matter is a recurring subject of investigation in her practice.
In 2018, she built her first functional playground, appropriating construction materials and conventional household items into a composition of non-prescriptive stimuli and has made fourteen playgrounds to date. Her most recent playgrounds are on view at the De Singel (Antwerp, Belgium), and the Bundeskunstalle (Bonn, Germany). Another was recently on view at the Harewood Biennial (Leeds, UK).
Ogunbiyi’s recent and forthcoming exhibitions include projects at the Museum Tinguely (Basel, Switzerland), the 4th Lagos Biennale, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, the Arts Club of Chicago and the Noguchi Museum (New York). She lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, with her young family.