Bukola Koiki: On Motifs and Meaning

I have always been fascinated by patterns, and as a Nigerian-born American, it is perhaps a birthright of sorts. In my artistic practice, a few motifs repeat themselves and act as inspirational fodder for the questions I want to ask about the world. Inspired by Yoruba artistic production, Yoruba cosmology and ontology, the histories of graphic design and advertising, and linguistic phenomena, I explore narrative patterns through conceptual fiber explorations, experimental printmaking, and more. This work is supported and inspired by extensive contemporary and archival research from which I extract forms and ideas to feed the meanings I make from the past, present, and afterlives of colonialism, cultural rites of passage, and the threshold spaces that immigrants inhabit in the world.

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