27/03/2025
Radar #1 - Of what we do not look (back) at
KEMY OBAFEMI
Kemy Obafemi’s work is constructed through a series of movements and repetitive acts. She creates collages, puzzles, and landscapes, exploring various techniques such as tapestry, installation, printing, and patchwork.
At the heart of her practice is a reflection on domestic space and transmission. Through everyday objects, she questions the notions of archive, accumulation, and memory. These objects, often laden with stories, bear the traces of the lives of those who have handled them, becoming silent witnesses to the passing of time and the relationships that surround them.
While in the past, Kemy Obafemi chose to make a textile heritage visible by removing it from wardrobes and exhibiting it, her approach today broadens to a broader exploration of the home and its imagination. The home, a fundamental element of existence, is at the heart of her work. She is interested in everything that constitutes it: everyday objects, memories, smells, gestures, but also the people who inhabit it. For her, living is not limited to a place, but involves a set of practices and rituals that shape our relationship with the world.
By examining these domestic objects, her work highlights the gender dynamics and power relations associated with them. Historically perceived as banal and functional, these elements of the home nevertheless play an essential role in the construction of our identities and memories.
Through her works, Kemy Obafemi questions the way these objects influence our daily lives and how they participate in the transmission of stories, whether individual or collective.
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The exhibition is viewable until 03/04 at .brussels, 156 rue Blaes, 1000 Brussels