An Ominous Presence

6 March - 26 April

We are pleased to announce that Ebun Sodipo’s solo exhibition An Ominous Presence, will open this Thursday 6 March from 6-8pm. The exhibition will run until 26 April.

In An Ominous Presence, Ebun Sodipo presents her largest works to-date, with a suite of new collages centred around an interpretation of the gothic that offers a re-framing of both social and art history. Traversing ideas of horror, the end of the world, death, fear, mystery, mythology, ghostliness and the unknown, these unsettling new works extend the artist’s exploration of the idea that the trans woman represents a threat of danger and destruction.

Arranging images across a reflective metallic surface and encasing them in a thick layer of clear resin, Sodipo immortalises the figures, phrases and scenes that she assembles. While the glimmer and shine of her materials offers an allegory for the aesthetic expressions of transformation, Sodipo deliberately obscures self-reflection and stacks her images to complicate their clarity, their translucency enabling their contents to merge and generate new meanings. With every image carefully selected and positioned, the works in An Ominous Presence seek to reimagine the way we conceive of the past, time and history through images.

Titling the exhibition after a collage that includes the phrase “I’m an ominous presence the shape of a girl”, Sodipo prefigures an atmosphere of uneasiness among the works, a reverberating sense of foreboding that the trans woman presents in the world. Incorporating references from contemporary visual culture, architecture and history, An Ominous Presence borrows the visual language of gothicism and the ruin to posit that queerness could be capable of dismantling entrenched heteropatriarchal systems of belief.

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