2024-04-10 l Lakin Ogunbanwo: solo exhibition at Cairo Contemporary, Budapest

We congratulate our fellow Lakin Ogunbanwo with a solo show ‘are we good enough’ at Cairo Contemporary, Budapest.

Ogunbanwo’s new body of work is a series of enigmatic portraits that explore identity. By purposefully obscuring the individual identity of the sitters, the artist draws attention to what it is that defines an individual within a larger cultural collective; who this individual may be and how they want to be perceived. He has pared down the communicative aspect of the project to the power of the hat – ‘that witty but vital accessory in fashion’ – to speak of masculine identity. In Ogunbanwo’s signature style of elegant minimalism the aesthetic focus in this series, as in the rest of his work, is on light, texture, shape and silhouette.

The exhibition is a part of the official program of Budapest Photo Festival 2024.

You can see the exhibition until April 29.

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