2–3pm

97–99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
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London-based artist Okiki Akinfe joined writer and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe for a discussion on Akinfe’s work and the ideas presented in her new commission at Peer, RM9 5AN, which comprises a new series of large-scale oil paintings and lightboxes.

The conversation explored the development of the works in the exhibition, and examined Akinfe’s ongoing engagement with ideas about memory, class and place, and the construction of identity.

This event was BSL Interpretated.

Biographies:

Alayo Akinkugbe is an independent writer and curator. She is the author of Reframing Blackness (published by #Merky Books in 2025) and the founder of A Black History of Art, a platform highlighting Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day. She is also the host of the podcast, A Shared Gaze. Akinkugbe has worked with institutions and contributed to publications internationally, including serving on the advisory panel for African Artists: From 1882 to Now (Phaidon, 2021), and receiving a curatorial research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change. Her writing has appeared in publications such as AnOther Magazine, Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors.

Okiki Akinfe (b. 1999, London) lives and works in London. Selected exhibitions include: Where The Wild Things Are, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK; and The Clearing, curated by Ekow Eshun at Space Un, Japan (both 2025); On Feeling, The Approach, London, UK (2024); Free The Wind, The Spirit, and The Sun, curated by Yinka Shonibare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Hauntology: Ghostly Matters, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago (2023); What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2022); and 1–54 African Art Show, DaDa Gallery, Paris (2022).