Odun Orimolade: The Art of "Knowing"

Odun’s art draws from human connection and storytelling. She aims to capture unspoken meanings from sessions with her late father, reinterpreting these stories and navigating the familiar void using her memories and current understanding.

Odun’s pencil and charcoal drawings link her insights to cherished memories. Her art creates multiverses by enriching emptiness in memory or knowledge. These bridges form through various interpretations of the same word, providing a creative lens for viewing information.

By crafting universes and creating marks, Odun draws upon her imagination as a wellspring of knowledge to fill existing voids. Everything is present in her newly imagined worlds, and she encourages her audience to embrace this feeling.

In her exhibition "Knowing" at Nubuke Foundation in 2021. She explores this simple, mundane question that is central to human life - How do we know the things that we do?

I approach knowing as the engagement of space; as a place for reflection, reflectivity, reorientation, navigation. It is the concept of what space is in itself. You can call space void but then, there are no voids; there is something in all space.- Odun Orimolade

Sometimes you pause and you take a closer look and there is a whole world in there. -Odun Orimolade

Multiverse is a group of drawings that reflect Odun's reaction to books she has read, her imaginations, or the everyday occurrences we often give no thought to.