How Luke Agada’s ‘When The Center Holds’ Challenges The Idea Of A World Falling Apart

Okla Jones, ESSENCE, October 7, 2026

Nigerian-born artist Luke Agada has spent considerable time thinking about what happens when the world begins to fall apart. Since moving to Chicago in 2021 to study painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has developed a practice concerned with how people understand themselves during periods of uncertainty.

 

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