The bounds of creativity are not defined solely by what already exists, but by what can emerge. The quiet expansions of thought, the layering of memory, and the translation of lived experience into form. Across this exhibition, five contemporary artists engage experimental printmaking and edition-making as tools of translation: acts that hold memory in one hand and innovation in the other, revealing how the past can be coaxed into new relevance.
SUPERIMPOSED: PRINT, MEMORY & MATERIAL
The bounds of creativity are not defined solely by what already exists, but by what can emerge. The quiet expansions of thought, the layering of memory, and the translation of lived experience into form. Across this exhibition, five contemporary artists engage experimental printmaking and edition-making as tools of translation: acts that hold memory in one hand and innovation in the other, revealing how the past can be coaxed into new relevance.
Ade Adekola stretches the possibilities of photography into the tactile world, weaving it into prints, textiles, and animated lightboxes. His series Symbols as Essence turns to Adinkra signs and cultural motifs as containers of identity, spirituality, and resilience. Alongside, we present a selection from his Transformation Series [Cities], a series of transformed architectural photographs drawn from his travels. This body of work revealsXQ how his conceptual practice expresses his visual sensitivity and architectural training.
Orry Shenjobi’s mixed media works and installation, PEOPLE, invite us into a space of shared humanity. Her images, layered and multiplied, ask us to consider what we recognize in one another. “To see others,” she writes, “is to see oneself… in these faces, we find reflections of joy, sorrow, contemplation, and resilience.” Her work superimposes memory and emotion, turning private moments into mirrors.
Josh Ike Egesi’s AGU Object is an inquiry into memory, materiality, and identity, three forces that shape how we understand ourselves and the worlds we inherit. Through his body of work, the leopard (agu) becomes both symbol and guide, leading us through the layered textures of personal recollection and collective cultural memory.
Chukwuemeka Anthony brings an entirely different language to the exhibition. One shaped by architecture, technology, gaming, and a fascination with modular forms. His compositions merge loose, intuitive mark-making with geometric order. Floating rectangles, scattered symbols, and etched patterns evoke motion, fragmentation, and space — mini stories embedded within graphic codes.
Informed by his research on the National Museum of Scotland's African collections, 'Okolo' by Scottish-Nigerian artist and printmaker Nkem Okwechime looks at the intersection of European and West African identity. Using printmaking as both memory and method, he reconstructs ancestral figures through shifting palettes, papers, and prints. In his hands, the deities become portals reshaped by distance, migration, and the act of remembering across borders.
SUPERIMPOSED wants you to witness what can become. To impose your own meaning onto the forms before you.
Presented by Fresco Gallery.
November 2025
