East, London
Kayode Ojo
An Angel Is Just a Messenger
Maureen PaleyExtended Hours: Sunday, June 8, 12pm to 5pm — Maureen Paley is pleased to present An Angel Is Just a Messenger, the first solo exhibition of Kayode Ojo at the gallery and in the UK. His work employs a process of sourcing, collecting and displaying objects. His sculptures reveal how items can confer social status upon their owner, examining the artifice of taste and the aspirations associated with it. Though the sculptures reflect on the markers of excess and accumulation, these carefully staged compositions also embrace the fragility and impractical beauty of their objects. Kayode Ojo (b. Cookeville, Tennessee, 1990) lives and works in New York. He is represented by Sweetwater in Berlin who recently presented his solo exhibition Me & U (2024). A year prior, 52 Walker in New York displayed a solo presentation of his work, Eden (2023). Works by Kayode Ojo are held in the institutional collections of CCS Hessel Museum of Art, New York; MOCA Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Stedelijk, Amsterdam; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.