In conjunction with the exhibition Naïveté, on view at the gallery until April 10, 2021, David Alekhuogie will be in conversation with Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator, Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, to discuss Alekhuogie’s practice and the works in the exhibition. Join the gallery on Wednesday 17 March at 6.30pm EST via Zoom.

For Naïveté, Alekhuogie has made photographs using African sculpture and textiles to examine ideas of authorship, the relationship between photography and textiles as mediums of storytelling, and the route through which much of the African diaspora learn about their cultural heritage. Central to the show is the series “A Reprise” which proposes a revision of Perfect Documents, the exhibition catalogue of Walker Evans’s photographs of African sculptures commissioned by MoMA in conjunction with their 1935 exhibition African Negro Art. In the project gallery, a selection of works from To Live and Die in LA, Alekhuogie’s 2018 series which considers the landscape as a vehicle for personal and political identity, is on view.