SLAG & RX GALLERY | NEW YORK

Osaretin Ugiagbe

A view from Amman

26/10/2023 - 13/01/2024

Exhibition view of "A View from Amman" of Osaretin Ugiagbe, SLAG&RX New York

White T-Shirt, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in/122 x 122 cm

Exhibition view of "A View from Amman" from Osaretin Ugiagbe, SALG&RX New York

Two Lines, 2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in/122 x 122 cm

“It was a place I never thought I would visit,” Ugiagbe says of Jordan’s Amman. “A culture I didn't know much about. I visited yes, but I was also received. I was heard. Someone was waiting for me at the airport, and I was hugged. I’m in this foreign place. Not in a hotel but staying in a guest room in someone’s home. It was this dance of feeling each other out, of knowing somehow your journey will prepare you for the moment, whatever the moment is.”

Osaretin Ugiagbe