“Asking the moon to bring rain, All About My Mother series”

Igi Lola Ayedun is a multimedia artist and cultural agent. Her practice spans painting, video, 3D digital sculpture, photography, and sound. As the founding director of HOA, a Situationist-influenced organization, Igi is committed to a decolonial perspective on contemporary art, focusing on artists from the global majority. Igi’s artistic practice is guided by the cultural and biological potential of color, with a special emphasis on the rehabilitation of matter. Her current research revolves around the color blue, exploring the global routes of indigo, the historical legacy of lapis lazuli, and the power of minerals in sustaining indigenous and African traditions through the management of natural resources. Recently, her digital research has incorporated images created by artificial intelligence and programs that interpret brain impulses, overcoming the limits of cameras and the ocular system. Her pictorial research revisits the textile tradition through the historical Silk Road.

Igi's work has been exhibited at several renowned institutions, such as Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel (2024), MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som (2024), Pivô/IMS (2023), and MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (2022). Among the awards she has received, the ZUM Photography Grant from the Instituto Moreira Salles (2022) stands out. In 2023, Igi was recognized by ARTSY as one of the ten Latin American artists at the forefront of abstraction and by Folha de São Paulo as one of the ten women who command the art market in Brazil. Her trajectory and research have been published in magazines such as FOAM Magazine, Flash Art Magazine and Revista Select.

In addition to solo exhibitions such as "Eclosão de um sonho, uma fantasia" at HOA Galeria in São Paulo (2023) and Anexa CCBB (2023), Igi has participated in several group exhibitions, including the Cairo Biennale (2023) and "Enciclopédia Negra" at MAR (2022) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2021). Igi believes that the juxtaposition of ancient and contemporary technologies is a spiritual way of preserving African ancestry for the future.