Kehinde Adewuyi Nigerian, b. 1959

In SOLE TO SOUL , SMO Contemporary Art curates a rare and stirring retrospective of one of Nigeria’s most evocative sculptors, Kenny Adewuyi (born 1959). Spanning over three decades of practice, this solo exhibition at Temple Muse brings together 32 works ranging from intimate charcoal drawings to life size bronze sculptures, each piece a meditation on the physical and emotional journeys we walk as humans. Adewuyi has long been recognized for his signature elongated figures and exaggerated feet, a motif that echoes throughout this body of work. For over twenty years, Adewuyi has had an active studio practice in both France and Nigeria, teaching and mentoring generations of artists. His art invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reckon with the invisible weight we carry in our soles, stories of displacement, joy, questioning, resistance, and endurance.

SOLE TO SOUL reminds us that the most profound journeys are often internal. From the grounding of our soles to the quiet stirrings of our souls, Adewuyi captures the invisible path we all walk, the one between survival and meaning, weight and wonder, form and feeling. This is not just an exhibition. It is a mirror. It is a meditation. It is a soulful walk through life.

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