The Rele Arts Foundation is pleased to present the 11th edition of the Young Contemporaries programme, featuring the works of three emerging artists whose practices engage with memory, healing, and cultural inheritance. Drawing from personal experiences and communal histories, the exhibition reflects on how identity is shaped through absence, responsibility, and tradition.
Gideon Okoro presents paintings rooted in a period of illness, loss, and self-reflection, using art as a process of healing and emotional survival. Tumininu Gbebire documents the traders of Balogun Market, tracing how generations of women have shaped Yoruba fashion and owàmbẹ̀ culture through trade and tradition. Tobiloba Fasalejo reflects on childhood, faith, and early responsibility through intimate scenes that explore how presence can exist even in absence.
Together, the artists invite viewers to thoughtful reflections on memory as something lived, carried forward, and continually reimagined.