Monique Meloche Gallery is delighted to announce the representation of artist Luke Agada, whose first solo show at the gallery, Arms, Feet, and Fitful Dreams, is on view through October 28.

Lagos-born Luke Agada's practice examines themes of globalization, migration, and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world. His abstracted paintings present warped figures and dream-like compositions as symbols of hyphenated identities and reference the transformation of the art historical postmodern human figure. Considering how both time and space produce complex bodies of difference, Agada’s works address the ambiguity of our identity within post-structuralist theory. Agada, a self-taught artist who came to the US to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, reflects on the instability ofthe transitory human. His surrealist-like paintings of disembodied figures floating in ethereal spaces references the present moment of transit formed where time and space in a postmodern world intersect to produce complex bodies of difference and identity, past and present.