Tyburn Gallery is presenting In the Kingdom of this World, a solo exhibition by Victor Ehikhamenor. Hailing from Edo State, the historic seat of the Benin Empire, Ehikhamenor is a multi-disciplinary artist whose signature patterning, a mélange of gestural abstraction and stylised forms, adorns everything from paintings to photographs to immersive installations, producing a hypnotic experience, a sense of both meditative repetition and an ongoing narrative being told. For this exhibition, Ehikhamenor expands on his work in the Nigerian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, by exploring the material form of identity and the intricate connections between history, spirituality and art. In a series of intricate perforated works on paper and a new body of work composed of rosaries sewn on canvases and lace material, the artist weaves elaborate images depicting mythical and royal figures. These works reference the imagery and
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