Jade Fadojutimi: Jesture is a publication produced by Pippy
Houldsworth Gallery to accompany the second solo exhibition at the
gallery of new paintings by London-based artist Jade Fadojutimi,
presented in autumn 2020. The word "Jesture" in the title of the
exhibition and publication evokes a sense of the absurd, responding
to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation
during lockdown. Central to Fadojutimi's practice is a repeated
questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding
of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a sense
of self. Addressing the exchange between an individual and their
environment, the vivid choices of colour and form derive from the
associative qualities of the special items that capture her
attention and the memories they invoke. Fadojutimi's studio is
filled with objects, drawings and writings that evoke nostalgic
pleasure. Powerful memories, experienced whilst listening to film,
animation and video game soundtracks, transport Fadojutimi to the
first time she encountered them, eliciting a response that is
experienced through intense colour. The synthesis of these various
influences, through which Fadojutimi understands her sense of self,
is transformed into large-scale gestural paintings charged with
energy and emotion. Described by Fadojutimi as "environments",
these complex compositions, neither wholly abstract nor figurative,
are built up with layers of oil paint, interrupted by the more
linear mark-making made possible by her recent adoption of oil
pastels. The introduction of new materials into her painting has
enabled Fadojutimi to think more broadly about palette, composition
and depth, while translating the spontaneity of her drawing on to
the canvas. In her essay for the publication, From Life - Thoughts
on the paintings of Jade Fadojutimi, writer, critic and
editor-at-large of frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie writes: "In
these paintings, the world, in all of its chaotic glory, exists as
an intimation. Art is not an explanation: it's a shot of energy, a
flash of colour; a shimmer, a reaction, a line thrown out to see
who might pick it up. Pictures are made by people and, like people,
their tone can switch direction in the blink of an eye. A painting
is a very human thing: they're allowed to be messy. Jade tells me
that her aim is for "deep emotion, not deep description"." This,
the artist's first published book, designed by A Practice for
Everyday Life and printed by PUSH, London, has been co-published by
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, and Anomie Publishing, London.
Jade Fadojutimi (b.1993) lives and works in London. She earned a BA
from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2015 and an MA from
the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. After Pippy Houldsworth
Gallery took on representation of the artist and presented her
first solo exhibition in 2017-18, she had her first one-person
institutional show at PEER UK, London in 2019. Acquisitions by
Baltimore Museum of Art, ICA Miami, Tate, and a promised gift to
Dallas Museum of Art followed soon after. She had her first solo
exhibition in Germany with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, in
2019 and will have her first solo exhibition in Japan with Taka
Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, opening March 2021. Fadojutimi has been
selected to participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021. Her first solo
US museum exhibition will be presented at ICA Miami, opening in
November 2021. She will also have a solo exhibition of new work at
The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021.
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