10/14/2026
We are delighted to share that Lola Ayisha Ogbara and Roland Knowlden Jr.โs presentation has won best international booth at Minor Attractions
โจ๐Room 113
The Newman
50 Newman Street
Oct 13 - 17, 2026
Working across assemblage, ceramics, photography, and film, Ogbara and Knowlden meditate on the hotel room as a site of desire, intimacy, remembrance, and echoes of love lost.
Ogbara is an artist interested in โcartographies of resistanceโ through the exploration of personal, collective, and lost memories. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Ogbara utilizes the body form, as well as its absence, to contemplate the obscurities of remembering, looking/seeing, and laboring. Working at the intersections of land, body, and spirit, Ogbara moves between the past and present, theory and lived experience, archived histories and non-Western epistemologies, using diasporal ecologies as frameworks to imagine otherwise.
Knowldenโs sculptural works employ loops as forms of recursion, echoing James Baldwinโs aphorism in ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ: โthe law that we recognize when we say, Whatever goes up must come down.โ Knowlden also draws on Baldwinโs ๐๐ช๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ชโ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ as an emotional nexus for the roomsโ dimly lit interiors and its subtle, longing register through gestures. The textures of a kiss, the gaze behind the mask, the gravity of a lovers body lying across a bed.
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