A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER
$2,000.00
It is the opening verse of a shared exhaustion that push-and-pull between the body’s need for rest and the unrelenting demands of survival. It plays on the biblical proverb (Proverbs 6:10), but with street honesty and weariness, the added phrase “omo bro me I wan sleep oh” twists it. The work speaks to the reality of Nigerian youths who are burnt out but can’t afford to stop chasing gigs, side hustles, and “soft life,” while being punished for simply needing rest.
Artist Name
Olamilekan Akinsola
Artist Statement
Olamilekan Akinsola is a visual storyteller whose practice navigates the intersections of time, memory, and the emotional topography of human existence. His work emerges as both a deeply personal chronicle and a mirror to the collective experience, particularly within the layered realities of Nigerian life. Drawing from faith, cultural heritage, and lived encounters, he engages themes of identity, spirituality, psychological wellness, and shared memory.
Akinsola works across charcoal, acrylic, oil, and unconventional media such as burnt paper-elements he refers to as "patches of memories." Through these materials, he deliberately collapses the boundaries between fragility and resilience, illusion and truth. His figures, often gestural and introspective, embody moments of stillness that invite contemplation while confronting the inherited tensions of history and the urgencies of contemporary survival.
For Akinsola, the studio is a site of healing and communion. His compositions fuse Afro-Classical sensibilities with contemporary emotional registers, creating spaces where the spiritual and the everyday coexist. Through layered surfaces, textured symbolism, and quiet yet assertive gestures, his works resonate beyond the canvas, offering viewers a place to see themselves-reflective, remembered, and profoundly felt.
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