Ayogu Kingsley Unveils When All Else Fades at the 2025 British Art Fair
A Landmark Exhibition Presented by The African Art Hub
25 – 28 September 2025 | Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The African Art Hub (TAAH) is proud to announce its presentation of acclaimed Nigerian artist Ayogu Kingsley at the 2025 British Art Fair, with his latest solo exhibition, When All Else Fades. This deeply compelling body of work invites visitors to explore memory, postmemory, and metaphysical time through a visual language that is as technically masterful as it is philosophically resonant.
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When All Else Fades is a cultural highlight and essential stop for art lovers and stakeholders alike. The benefits of engaging with this landmark presentation are clear. Acquire works of lasting value from one of the most important contemporary African painters of his generation. Ayogu’s practice bridges technical mastery and philosophical depth, making his canvases both cultural artefacts and timeless investments. The exhibition is an invaluable resource for those researching global art histories, figuration, and the poetics of memory.
Ayogu’s work addresses urgent conversations around heritage, trauma, and the metaphysical dimensions of time. This is a rich opportunity to report on a rising African voice whose work is reshaping contemporary discourse. The exhibition provides a narrative of resilience and metaphysics that will resonate with both specialist and broad audiences. Visitors will experience an environment that is immersive and transformative. Ayogu’s works are not only to be viewed, but entered—each canvas a portal into collective memory, ancestral consciousness, and spiritual reflection. Drawing on the momentum of a recent Marrakesh residency, Ayogu presents canvases that reimagine the human figure as an archive of ancestral wisdom, myth, and lived experience. His works unfold across a cyclical temporality, where shadow meets light, silence becomes text, and memory exists as both haunting and inheritance.
A cactus rising like a sentinel, constellations glowing above anonymous figures, arms reaching into luminous planes—these recurring images remind us of art’s ability to speak across generations and geographies. Ayogu’s symbolism is urgent and alive, compelling us to confront not only what is remembered but also what endures unseen. As one of the defining exhibitions of British Art Fair 2025, When All Else Fades is more than an artistic showcase—it is a journey into the intimate landscapes of memory and myth. It reaffirms why art remains necessary: to excavate, to resist, and to remind us of what endures when spectacle fades.
TAAH invites all patrons, collectors, scholars, and cultural thinkers to attend this landmark exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. Missing this presentation means missing one of the fair’s most vital artistic and intellectual experiences.
