Lot 54 - Aisha Olamide Seriki - Yet... Hope Still Remains

C type print and laser cut aluminium
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Rosie Penny

About

Aisha Olamide Seriki (b 1998) is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist in London, specialising in fine art photography and sculpture. Seriki works from a canon of personal histories which splice contemporary realities. Her practice is holistic and embodied, subverting formal photographic traditions. Cosmological systems such as the Yoruba Spiritual Tradition have informed the multisensory approach Seriki has to documentation, communication and creation. Through optics and trickery, she challenges the rigid imagination of self, creating space in the archive for a wider definition

Education

2023 - 2024
MFA in Fine Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, England

2022-2023
MA in Photography, Royal College of Art, England

2017 - 2020

BA Global Liberal Arts, School of Oriental and African Studies, England

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Orí Inú, DoyleWham Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Group Exhibitions

2025

Female Thresholds x photoSCHWEIZ, Kongresshaus, Zürich, Switzerland,
I Would Rather Be Horizontal, Bomb Factory Art Foundation Marylebone, London, United Kingdom
A Pocket Full of Plenty, Hypa Gallery Netil House, London, United Kingdom

2024
I am because you know me: a love letter to womanhood, Photo Fringe, Brighton, United Kingdom
Voices of Black Artistry, Christies, London, United Kingdom
Fifteen, Soho Revue, London, United Kingdom
Pathways, ST.ART Gallery, London, United Kingdom
RCA 2024 Degree Show, RCA Battersea, London, United Kingdom
V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography, Copeland Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Photo London, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom


2023
ARC Salon, Arc Painswick, London, United Kingdom
Recent Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
RCA 2023 Degree show, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

Awards

2024

V&A Parasol Prize for Women in Photography, V&A

2023

JM Finn Studio Award, JM Finn

SW Darkroom Award, SW Darkroom

New Photography Prize, Simon Bishop

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

"yet…hope still remains" is a photo-sculpture that explores voyeurism, symbolism, desire, and presence, drawing inspiration from the voyeuristic separation depicted in Milton’s Paradise Lost.

In 'yet…hope still remains', the metal frame serves as a barricade, fragmenting the narrative and disrupting the audience’s gaze. The photo sculpture conceptualizes Satan’s deception of Eve, with braided hair functioning as both an illusion and a tool of trickery—a metaphor for Satan’s elusive presence in the narrative and a critique of photography’s inherent reliance on vision.