Mary Nnah
Parallel Passages, a group exhibition featuring eight indigenous Nigerian artists that will explore the theme of typology is set to be held at the Kokopelli Gallery, Ikoyi Lagos from November 25th to December 23rd, 2023.
The gallery Director, Dare Herald explained that the exhibition has been curated to facilitate the discourse of comparisons between connecting stories and to amplify the concept of typologies.
“The Parallel Passages Exhibition has been curated to facilitate the discourse of
comparisons between connecting stories and we seek to amplify the concept of typologies. Typologies are known for organising and understanding different types or patterns within a specific context in various fields even as psychology, anthropology and theology.
In this not-so-usual exhibition, we will be having eight Nigerian Artists who have mastered the Art of storytelling. As is our culture in Kokopelli, eight artists who work across mediums from painting to mixed media to sculpture and more will explore this avenue to tell true or fictional stories that would spark conversations and also cause a revelation
Speaking on what informed the theme, “Parallel Passages”, Herald said, “It’s more like an exegesis of typologies. In any literary work, parallel passages are those that mirror each other in content, structure, or meaning, giving breadth of view and foresight into the author’s intentions or highlighting its key concepts, and because we are curating the exhibition to explore the topic of identification of common traits or patterns and the exercise of connecting the dots.”
He said the artists particularly selected for this exhibition are those who have mastered the Art of storytelling as it is with the culture in Kokopelli adding that art lovers, enthusiasts, collectors, stakeholders, students, tourists and the like are the target of the exhibition.
Parallel Passages, which is expected to have an average of at least 3000 visitors from the start to finish of the exhibition, is set to highlight different stories based on true events or fictional, that are symbolic and are types and shadows of one another and mostly can be solved in puzzles.
