Ayọ̀ Akínwándé

Akínwándé’s oeuvre is engineered towards a social critique of the built environment. He explores power dynamics, the relationship between the “powerful” and the “powerless,” as they manifest themselves in the multi-faceted layers of human reality.
He is interested in the flow of information in global democratic discourses, and how it reflects existing power structures. His ongoing project “Archiving the Future,” a long-term research work involves collecting/archiving social media screenshots, and sound recordings of conversations at bus stops in the city of Lagos. His long-term exhibition series “Power Show,” creates visual monologues and dialogues on socio-political realities in his society as he incorporates architectural processes in a spatial detailing and sectioning of his ideas and thoughts, to evoke both intimacy, and monumentality.