Can Figurative Abstraction Sway Historic Memory?

Rebecca Anne Proctor, Frieze, June 11, 2026

The group show 'In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence' centres on a poignant proposition: that the fragmented, abstracted human form is not merely a formal preference but a necessary means to reflect the artist's subjective experience of historical memory. It is in figurative abstraction that the four artists gathered here - Adeniyi-Jones, Luke Agada, Ludovic Nkoth and Naïla Opiangah - find a visual language to relay the psychological weight of their continuously negotiated existence as African diasporic artists.

 

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