Kayode Ojo
You dressed him like me?
Solo Exhibition
April 9, 2019 to April 19, 2019
Via Durini 24, Milan, Italy
Exhibition Text
The solo exhibition by Kayode Ojo presents a series of sculptures, photographs, and a video piece exploring the relationship between mass-production and labor exploitation-fashion and contemporary culture. From his installations to his video and photographic work, Kayode Ojo documents the every-day with a critical eye: commenting on the social and political actions, such as friends at a club, to moments of intimacy, or even different production stages in his studio. Ojo’s photographs stress the strong relationship between the artist and his subject, while his installations criticize the mass production found within the fashion world.
Installation Views
Artist Biography
Kayode Ojo’s practice emerges from a filtering of the clothing, furniture, musical instruments, cameras, faux-luxury objects, and popular media that are encountered in everyday life. His sculptures are precariously balanced arrangements of such found objects atop glass and mirrors or in readymade cages, often titled after film and theater references, performing a delicate double-duty as both consumer good and artwork. Ojo’s photographs are drawn from a decades-long archive of candid, spontaneous captures, documenting moments of performativity late at night.
Ojo (*1990, United States) lives and works in New York. He has presented three solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2024. Other recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Maureen Paley and 52 Walker. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Hessel Museum of Art, Museum Brandhorst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Studio Museum. Ojo received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2012.