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Remi Ajani
Fractured self
Imagine yourself as a mosaic - each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.
View SeriesRemi Ajani
Ajani’s paintings unfold like conversations—intimate, instinctive, and unresolved. Starting with personal or found imagery, she explores how the body can communicate emotional context. Her practice oscillates between figuration and abstraction, driven by a curiosity about perception, reality, connection, and disconnection.
Through visceral color and layered gesture, Ajani constructs spaces where presence meets absence, and identity reveals itself in fragments. In line with Fragments Reassembled, her work resists tidy resolution, instead honoring complexity, emotion, and transformation. She invites us not just to look—but to truly see.
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Time Travel… Memories, 2023
From the golden glow of connection, we are swept into the dreamlike haze of ""Time Travel… Memories."" A crowd gathers, its figures caught in a dance between presence and absence. Faces and forms blur into muted yellows and shadowy grays, evoking the texture of a memory just out of reach.
One arm raised in motion draws us into the scene, yet the fragmented composition reflects how gatherings live on in our minds—not as complete stories, but as scattered moments stitched together by emotion. Ajani turns the act of remembering into art, transforming the collective into something deeply personal.
Waiting Line, 2024
From the motion and fluidity of "Time Travel… Memories," we arrive at the tender stillness of "Waiting Line." A mother crouches beside a child in a stroller, their figures leaning toward each other in quiet intimacy. The muted palette and soft brushstrokes create a sense of stillness, yet within it lies the weight of anticipation.
This is Ajani at her most poignant, capturing the moments of care and connection that often go unnoticed. The figures seem to breathe within the canvas, their everyday tenderness reflecting the fragments of love and attention that form the foundation of our identities.
