Fragments

Presented at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique in Paris, Fragments features new work by London-born, New York-based artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, marking his most public presentation in the city. The site-specific exhibition utilizes the gallery's street-facing window to display a single pink painting, Rose Sentinel (2026), set against a custom blue wallpaper featuring hand-drawn leaf and floral motifs. Inspired by his recent ceiling painting for the Nigerian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, the installation reflects Adeniyi-Jones's evolving interest in treating space not merely as a container for art, but as an environment actively generated by the artwork itself.

Adeniyi-Jones’s broader practice is rooted in "cultural addition and hybridity," seamlessly blending his Yoruba heritage and West African mythology with European modernist abstraction and the Harlem Renaissance. By translating hand-drawn organic patterns into repeating wallpaper, he bridges the gap between painting, printmaking, and textiles, drawing historical kinships with British design and the uncredited multicultural lineages of Western color theory. When displayed in Paris, these motifs shift in context, entering a rich dialogue with classical ornamentation and decorative history. Ultimately, his vibrant, stylized work uses the human body and repetitive form as narrative instruments to explore contemporary diasporic identity, while acting as a visual accompaniment to post-colonial Nigerian literature.