African contemporary visual artist
01.
About Me
Tósìn Paul Àjàyí (b. 1998, Akure, Nigeria) is a contemporary visual artist based in Akure. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine and Applied Arts (Painting) from the University of Benin (2021)....

Exhibition Ground
Figurative artworks
03.
My Creative
practice
My practice examines the intersections of memory, identity, and lived experience, utilizing a visual language that fluctuates between abstraction and figuration. Through the deployment of curvilinear and geometric forms, I construct distorted yet recognizable figures that serve as vessels for internal states, personal history, and the shifting perceptions of the self.
Central to my inquiry is a return to instinctive image-making—a deliberate reclamation of the creative autonomy that precedes formal external systems. Painting, for me, is an act of recovery; I seek to unearth forms of expression rooted in primal curiosity, emotion, and symbolism rather than rigid representation.
I further engage Yoruba cultural memory through an autoethnographic lens, reconstructing heritage by synthesizing research into indigenous symbols and ancestral narratives. Elements of Adire, Batik, and ceremonial traditions are recontextualized within contemporary compositions, creating a space where preservation and transformation exist in a state of simultaneous tension.
Within this framework, color functions as a symbolic lexicon: blues and purples denote lineage and maternal memory, while greens articulate themes of growth and "becoming." Ultimately, my paintings function as meditative topographies where personal experience and cultural consciousness converge.
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