Orisun Art Gallery presented Layers of Seeing, a group exhibition bringing together five artists whose works explored the many ways we encounter ourselves, one another, and the worlds we inhabit.
Featuring Ibrahim Kareem, Anehita Aletor, Ololade Oletubo, Samson Yusuf, and Deborah Ibeme, the exhibition brought photography, painting and drawing into conversation around memory, identity, presence, vulnerability and personal transformation.
Rather than treating seeing as a simple act of looking, Layers of Seeing invited audiences to consider what exists beneath the surface of an image. Across the works, the body became a site of memory, gestures carried emotional weight, and familiar scenes opened into questions of belonging, resilience and becoming.
Ibrahim Kareem’s fine art photography, including The Unnoticed and Thresholds, turned attention towards quiet moments that can easily escape notice. Working with natural light and carefully considered compositions, Kareem’s images encouraged a slower, more contemplative encounter with everyday experience.
Ololade Oletubo presented Paths of Becoming alongside The Journey of Hope. Through painting and drawing, Oletubo approached the human figure as a vessel for movement, experience and transformation. The works carried a strong sense of narrative, connecting individual journeys with wider ideas of community and aspiration.
Samson Yusuf’s Presence and Absence and Interior Landscape explored the relationship between memory, emotion and place. His fine art photographs moved between intimacy and ambiguity, using light and shadow to suggest that what we remember can be as powerful as what is physically before us.
Deborah Ibeme’s Shifting Perspectives and Fragments of Time examined human connection and interior experience through closely observed photographic imagery. Hands, faces, water and physical proximity became expressive elements, allowing moments of vulnerability, strength and reflection to emerge without requiring explanation.
Anehita Aletor’s work added another visual language to the exhibition, broadening its conversation across media and reinforcing the central idea behind Layers of Seeing: that no image, person or experience is understood from a single point of view.
Together, the five artists offered distinct practices without losing the sense of a shared conversation. The exhibition moved between the intimate and the collective, asking viewers not simply to look at the works, but to spend time with them and consider how perception is shaped by memory, experience and emotion.
Presented at Orisun Art Gallery, 1st Floor, Tropic Galleria, by Grand Square, Muhammadu Buhari Way, CBD Abuja, Layers of Seeing took place on 29 August 2026,
The exhibition affirmed the richness of contemporary artistic practice and the importance of spaces where different voices, materials and perspectives can meet. In bringing these five artists together, Layers of Seeing offered its audience something both simple and demanding: an invitation to look again and perhaps to notice what was missed the first time.
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