#poetryonpaper In love with the exhibition of Odun Orimolade 🤍 ..currently on view at the @nubuke_foundation Odun Orimolade is a trans-disciplinary artist, and academic based in Lagos, Nigeria. She incorporates and explores different media spanning drawing, installation, and performance. She approaches her artistic practice attending to a mix of ideologies and worldviews cultivated from different resource areas including archives, literature, cultural philosophies among others. HOW DO WE KNOW? Odun Orimolade’s presentation explores this simple, mundane question which is central to human life- How do we know the things that we do? The works include drawings, drawing installation, video and performance. Almost every philosopher and worldview has engaged this question one way or the other. Plato suggests that knowledge is innate to a person and is activated through learning. Aristotle, on the other, is an empiricist. Through perception, introspection, memory, reason and testimony, we are led to the knowledge that we have as humans. Or if we are to decentre our human knowledge, we are led to the knowledge that non-humans have of us. Growing up, Orimolade’s father read Yoruba literature to her from authors such as Daniel Fagunwa. In a bid to help her understand the language, she picked up the phonetics and tossed them into her mind - a dark space, a generative space. In that space, the words generated images - multiverses of colours and shapes- and fled on the wings of her imagination. It is an encounter that has shaped her experience of knowing. There is no empty space, if I could start there. There is nothing that is nothing... there’s no void nor emptiness anywhere. Read the whole synopsis written by Kwabena Agyare Yeboah @barimaagyare on www.nubukefoundation.com #odunorimolade #humanlife #howdoweknow #humanknowledge #mixedmediadrawings #imagination #yorubaphilosophy 📷 @junski_pk