Surrealism Meets Nostalgia and Patchwork Dreams Across Continents
Surrealism isn’t just a relic of early 20th-century Europe—it’s alive and morphing in unexpected corners of today’s art world. In Madrid, Belgian artist Stevie Dix weaves together cosmic landscapes and bodily forms using homemade beeswax impasto, her moody palettes occasionally pierced by flashes of crimson. Her panels, arranged in unconventional rectangles, evoke both the internal and external worlds, blurring the line between what’s felt and what’s seen.
Meanwhile, Ayotunde Ojo in Lagos channels the hush of domestic life into paintings with softened edges, turning everyday moments into hazy, almost cinematic reveries. His shift from hyperrealistic pencil to dreamy paint was born out of pandemic solitude, and now his works linger between memory and presence.
In Accra, Kwaku Yaro stitches together the past and present—literally—by transforming recycled materials and Ghanaian tote bags into vibrant, pointillist portraits that celebrate community and resourcefulness. And in Brooklyn, Xiangjie Rebecca Wu’s poetic canvases capture fleeting scenes with the tactile depth of ceramics, each painting a quiet line in a visual poem.
Across continents, these artists prove that tradition, memory, and innovation can coexist in a single brushstroke.
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