Ayo Akingbade works predominantly with film and installation to address themes of power, urbanism, and stance.
Her work has often documented experiences of rapid social change in London, where she was born and raised. It has recently been shown at Barbican Centre, London and International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her first major solo institutional exhibition, “Show Me The World Mister”, opened at Chisenhale Gallery, London in November 2022 and is touring until 2024, venues include Spike Island, Bristol and the Whitworth, University of Manchester.
Jitterbug (still) 2022
© Ayo Akingbade and Artangel Trust
Photo: Mustafa Hussein. Courtesy of the artist
Red Soleil 2021
“Graduation Show” Installation view at Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2021
© Ayo Akingbade. Courtesy of RA. Photo: Andy Keate
Red Soleil (still) 2021
© Ayo Akingbade. Courtesy of the artist
Discipline
film, installation, radical storytelling
Claudette’s Star (still) 2019
© Ayo Akingbade. Courtesy of the artist
Moving between experimental film essays, documentaries, and more traditional narrative, she grounds her practice in a commitment to radical storytelling. Akingbade is particularly interested in looking at the dissonances that emerge between self-presentation and self-fashioning and recently has explored this in self-portraiture and printmaking.
Fire in My Belly, 2021
“A Glittering City: Ayo Akingbade with
Duchamp & Sons” Installation view at
Whitechapel Gallery, London 2021. © Ayo
Akingbade. Courtesy of Whitechapel
Gallery. Photo: Andy Keate
Sharp Eyes (photographic print) 2021
© Ayo Akingbade. Courtesy of the artist
Sukiyaki (still) 2021
© Ayo Akingbade. Courtesy of the artist
Show Me The World Mister, 2022
Faluyi (still)
Installation view Chisenhale Gallery, London
(exhibition is still touring) © Andy Kate
Show Me The World Mister, 2022
The Fist (still)
Installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, London
(exhibition is still touring) © Andy Kate