Paris | Private Exhibition Tour, Wine & Discussion | Eniwaye Oluwaseyi

✨ Buried Roots Up in the Air – Part 2: Memory, Interiors & Diasporic Presence

Galerie Zidoun-Bossuyt | Saturday, April 25 | 14:00 – 16:00

Join us for an evocative encounter with Buried Roots Up in the Air – Part 2, a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Eniwaye Oluwaseyi. Through a new body of work, Oluwaseyi explores the emotional architecture of memory, identity, and belonging across continents and generations.

Hosted at Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, this intimate gathering invites you into layered interior worlds, where the boundaries between past and present, here and elsewhere, begin to dissolve.

What’s included: 🍷 Open wine bar 🖼 Guided tour of the exhibition 💬 Conversation prompts to spark reflection and dialogue 🧭 Facilitated discussion

About the Exhibition

Buried Roots Up in the Air unfolds across two parallel presentations in Paris and Luxembourg, marking a significant moment in Oluwaseyi’s rapidly evolving career. Following international recognition, including a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Royal Award for Modern Painting presented by Willem-Alexander, this new body of work deepens his exploration of identity through space and memory.

In this series, doorways, windows, gardens, and architectural fragments become portals, not just physical thresholds, but emotional and temporal ones. Oluwaseyi draws from personal archives, depicting family and friends within interiors that feel at once familiar and reimagined. These scenes are not fixed in time; they are layered, fluid, and alive with memory.

As a Nigerian artist living in the Netherlands, Oluwaseyi approaches domestic life with a sensitivity shaped by movement and distance. Nostalgia becomes a tool, not for longing alone, but for reconstructing belonging. His compositions echo mid-20th-century studio photography, balancing intimacy and formality while quietly referencing broader social and political contexts shaping African and diasporic lives.

Within these works, interiors transform into emotional vessels. They hold the weight of heritage while opening outward, inviting the viewer into moments already in motion. Through layered compositions, Oluwaseyi creates a tension between depth and surface, guiding how we move through both the painting and the histories it carries.

My take on the exhibit, by Art Gallivant:

There is a quiet expansiveness in Oluwaseyi’s work that lingers. Speaking to the familiarity of lineage and home re-created interiors that carry memory and meaning .his interiors are living archives, spaces where memory breathes, shifts, and resists containment.

What stands out is the way the paintings refuse to close in on themselves. Instead, they open up the reality of current and past moving simultaneously, just as we carry our reshaped selves outward, across time, across geographies, across lived and imagined realities. In doing so, they reflect something deeply true about diasporic identity, that it is never singular, never static, but always in motion.

Oluwaseyi captures this with care and complexity. His work does not attempt to resolve the tension between past and present, but rather holds it, allowing us to sit within it, to recognise fragments of ourselves within these layered worlds.

About the Gallery

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is a contemporary art gallery committed to supporting artists whose practices engage with global narratives and critical perspectives. Co-founded by Nordine Zidoun and Audrey Bossuyt, the gallery is known for its international program and support of both emerging and established artists. With spaces in Paris, Dubai and Luxembourg, the gallery fosters cross-cultural dialogue and presents artists whose work reflects the complexities of our time.

✨ Limited spots. Intimate group. Shared reflection.