Stars and Portals
June 20 - July 19, 2025
In STARS & PORTALS, Nigerian-born artists Adewale Alli and VILLAGER unite in a transcendent visual dialogue between cosmos and spirit. Here, stars and portals form the conceptual framework: stars as celestial guides, markers of destiny, light, and cosmic navigation; portals as metaphysical structures, spiritual gateways, and temporal passageways of memory and ancestral possibility.
Together, their works create an immersive landscape where the metaphysical and the material intertwine. Alli’s star paintings explore the boundless expanse of the universe, drawing on the cosmic and emotional resonance of abstraction. Through fire, texture, and form, he channels the brilliance and chaos of stellar birth and death, using stars as symbolic language for resilience, destruction, and rebirth. His canvases become constellations of feeling, mapping the unseen emotional universes within and beyond.
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