April 2021
Ameh Egwuh at Rele Gallery
The Nigerian-based Rele Gallery recently opened an LA outpost on a posh block of Melrose Ave. Their second show, by Lagos-based Ameh Egwuh, delights the minute you walk in with pink balloons that carpet the gallery floor. The balloons, which also float serenely between each painting on the gallery walls, appear in painted form in each work, often propping up an ethereal figure that acrobatically floats upwards. In one, a line of balloons buttress a figure’s back as if pushing…
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Rele Gallery, Los Angeles presents Life After Life, the debut solo exhibition by emerging contemporary Nigerian artist Ameh Egwuh, running from April 10 to May 8, 2021. Drawing its title from psychiatrist Raymond Moody’s 1975 book Life After Life, the exhibition explores the idea of human mortality and the afterlife, presenting death as a liminal and transmutative process of movement between worlds, a performative threshold between disparate but closely connected ways of being. As a series, the nine paintings in…
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