Victor Olaoyé

20 September 2022

Victor Olaoyé (2000 Ogun, Nigéria) Lives and works in Indo, Nigéria.Victor Olaoyé offers a reflection on time and transmission, recontextualizing the socio-cultural influences of hisYoruba culture.The artist explores the relationship between personal identity and ethnic cultures through the revival of adire art, a textile dyed with indigo. His figures, seized in suspended time, are related to traditional objects of archaeological value. A staging that measures the gap in the passage of time and inscribes his work in the long time, offering a new imaginaginary. Graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University and BA.eD in Fine Arts. Olaoyé has already won the first prize at the Life in My City Art Festival with an invitation to the 2022 Dak’art Biennale. One critic called him unavoidable.