Love & Bond III by Faith Gbadero
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Medium: Oil and Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 36 in
Year: 2025
Price: $1900.00 USD
Status: available
In a world where differences often divide, this piece is a reminder that love sees deeper than skin. It speaks of acceptance, of holding space for one another — not in spite of our differences, but because of them. “To be human is to recognize yourself in someone else.” — Desmond Tutu This Artwork is a visual theology of love unfiltered, acceptance unforced, and beauty unbound. It echoes the truth that we are not meant to live in isolation or judgment, but in unity and compassion.
Why collect this work?
Love & Bond III makes mutual care legible through interlocked bodies, while the repeated peaks and enveloping vegetation expand a private embrace into a broader image of connection.
- Gbadero’s statement identifies identity, togetherness, and African perspectives as concerns in his practice. Here, those stated interests are concentrated in posture rather than supported by an elaborate narrative setting.
- In the supplied photograph, two closed-eyed figures overlap at the painting’s center. Their heads touch, while arms cross the yellow torso at different heights. This dense arrangement resists a simple division between the person who comforts and the person who receives comfort.
- Catalogued as oil and acrylic on canvas, the painting sets modeled skin and fabric against broad, simplified bands of mountains, sky, and foliage. These media can support both opaque shapes and tonal transitions, though the catalogue does not assign either effect to one paint.
- Dated 2025, this painting is a focused example of how contemporary portraiture can picture solidarity without specifying the figures’ relationship. Its ambiguity keeps attention on care as a shared physical act.
About the Artist
Faith Gbadero
Faith Gbadero is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ogbomoso, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My art is driven by a desire to understand and express the human experience through layered narratives of identity, connection, memory, and becoming.
