When things are beings
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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19-11-2023 t/m 10-04-2023
- Locatie: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Winnow(er) (2022) is the outcome of Ayo's quest to learn the craft of weaving winning fans in the style of Langi people living in northern Uganda—the objects are known as Odero (“Langi winnowers”) in the artist's mother tongue. Presenting the fans as sculptural objects that were inspired by a Langi winner inherited by the artist herself, the project investigates embodied knowledge about personal and collective histories etched deep within diasporic bodies.
- https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/when-things-are-beings-2
That Which Chases Away Sorrow
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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08-02-2023 t/m 12-02-2023
- Locatie: Art Rotterdam/Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
- That which chases away sorrow is a series of mouth-blown and hand-fabricated glass sculptures. This project started as a personal query about the origins and symbolism of the Nepenthes plant. Inspired by 19th-century Botanical publications held in the Linnean Society of London archive, the form of Nepenthes, through my sculptural experimentation and imagination became vessels dousing pain and bringing protection during migration.
- https://www.ayo.studio/projects
An invitation for liveness
Residenties / uitwisseling
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19-09-2023 t/m 11-12-2023
- Locatie: Amant , New York
- An Invitation for Liveness is a meta-sensorial performance lecture weaving moving images, text, sculpture, and scent. It aims to experimentally 'enliven' archival materials and -immaterials related to African immigrant oral histories with which Ayo engaged during the studio and research residency at Amant, New York.
- https://www.amant.org/programs/53-an-invitation-for-liveness
A door a ajar, singing
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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09-09-2022 t/m 12-11-2022
- Locatie: Shimmer , Rotterdam
- A Door Ajar, Singing is an expanded group exhibition featuring 6 artists whose artworks connect to entrances and exits in the broadest sense. Joining us over the following months are (in order of appearance) Alexandra Phillips, Lee Kit, Ayo, Melvin Moti, Jo-ey Tang, and Charlotte Posenenske.
- https://shimmershimmer.org/a-door-ajar-singing-2/
Singing Off Key
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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13-07-2022 t/m 17-07-2022
- Locatie: Unfair , Amsterdam
- 'Singing Off Key' explores the complexity of displacement across time and locality. In vignettes, the film weaves disjointed desires of belonging shaped by memory, sound, image, voices, and the metaphoric act of extracting grain from chaff.
- https://unfair.nl/ayo/
Studio Research Residency
Residenties / uitwisseling
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19-04-2021 t/m 19-07-2021
- Locatie: Triangle - Astérides, Marseilles
- Triangle France is a non-profit contemporary arts organization, based at Friche la Belle de Mai, a former tobacco factory located in the city center of Marseilles. Triangle France aims to promote the emerging international art scene through a challenging and experimental program of artist's residencies, exhibitions, events, new commissions, and publications.
- https://trianglefrance.org/en/residences/ayo/
Erkenningen
Stipendium
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Mondriaan Artist Start
- 2021
Stipendium
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Amarte Fonds
- 2022
Stipendium
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Mondriaan Project Grant
- 2023
