Born in Cookeville, Tennessee, Kayode Ojo (b. 1990) received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2012. Ojo’s work examines the intricacies of personal and popular nostalgia by archiving the physical traces of the body’s most tantalizing and precious artifacts. Sourcing his materials from fast-fashion websites and online shopping hubs, the artist weaves the familiar cadences of searching, scrolling, purchasing, and receiving into his nimble artistic practice. Ojo works instinctively, with precision and without adhesives, to refashion these items into poetic yet perverse arrangements that make visible the phenomenon of social aspiration, unveiling its double-edged nature as a facilitator of both belonging and instability. (https://www.52walker.com/exhibitions/kayode-ojo-eden?_gl=1%2a8ox9o9%2a_ga%2aNzQxMjMzMzczLjE3MDE4MDYyMzE.%2a_ga_253J732CDG%2aMTcwMTgwNjIzMS4xLjEuMTcwMTgwNjcxMy4wLjAuMA..%2a_fplc%2aNFNwZHNKcVBBWjlQd2J6ZDhMOXp5Tlg3dFdoVDdYMzEzWGRlRG90SSUyRld4bEJINUdSV0VMWmkwV3VPS3B3V1RHJTJGSW9jWWh0TnQlMkZSNjdKUVAweExoZXNzdSUyQm1hYThPS1RIdmJjWGVJTyUyQklnek1WY05YQjljWFpDM1lWaHF5ZyUzRCUzRA..)