Becoming Light by Tayo Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 120 x 140 cm Year: 2024 Price: $1200.00 USD Status: available Butterflies gather around an upward-facing figure as refracted light divides the face into shifting planes of blue and green. Transformation is pictured not as a clean escape from the past, but as a gradual change of state. The body remains underwater while signs of metamorphosis appear around it, suggesting that becoming begins internally before it can be seen at the surface. Why collect this work?Becoming Light offers a focused way to encounter Tayo's practice through a specific work and its recorded materials. Tayo's practice is described through My paintings begin with the face and the body, but I am less interested in likeness than in what pressure reveals. Water, fractured planes, animals, flowers and moving lines are not decorative; they operate as signs of memory, fragility, protection and change..Butterflies gather around an upward-facing figure as refracted light divides the face into shifting planes of blue and green. Transformation is pictured not as a clean escape from the past, but as a gradual change of state. The body remains underwater while signs of metamorphosis appear around it, suggesting that becoming begins internally before it can be seen at the surface.The recorded technique or medium is Oil on canvas.At 120 x 140 cm, it can be considered for collections that have room for a work of this scale. About the ArtistTayo Nationality: Nigerian My paintings begin with the face and the body, but I am less interested in likeness than in what pressure reveals.
