Raimi Gbadamosi: 'Limitations'

Limitation (noun)

1 (often limitations) a limiting rule or circumstance; a restriction.

- a condition of limited ability; a defect or failing.
- the action of limiting.

2 (also limitation period) Law a legally specified period beyond which an action may be defeated or a property right is not to continue.

For his solo exhibition at the CUC Art Gallery, as part of the London Bridge Festival, the artist Raimi Gbadamosi is producing a site-specific installation.

His work investigates the complexity of social and cultural politics by challenging views on ethnicity, race and language. In this exhibition Raimi scrutinises limitations in contemporary society, which surface at the point of social and political contact. It is important to push towards the limits of one’s society, challenging implied consent to restrictions within a democracy, convincingly constructed as addressing a threat posed by another.

Through Limitations Raimi will show what happens when limitations are challenged. He will interrogate the private and public space, questioning the role of the gallery as a site and as a response to the limitations of that space. He will also perform two talks about limitations and social barriers, and at each of these, a multiple will be made available

About the Artist

Raimi Gbadamosi is an artist, writer and curator. He received his Doctorate in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group 'Afroeuropeans', University of Leon, Spain, and the 'Black Body' group, Goldsmiths College, London.

Recent national and international shows and events include: ARCO Madrid 2009; Tentativa De Agotar Un Lugar Africano, CASM, Barcelona 2008; Human Cargo, Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth 2007; Port City, Arnolfini, Bristol 2007.

Media work includes multiples, music, websites, writing and audience participation. Works creates debate, instead of representing preconceived concerns defined by specific social, cultural and political content.

Books include: Incredulous; Ordinary People; Extraordinary People; Contents; Drink Horizontal; Drink Vertical; The Dreamers' Perambulator; and Four Word.

The Republic (www.the-republic.net) negotiates the meeting of language and social constructions.

Recent essays include: The Not-So New Europeans, Wasafiri UK (current issue), and The Delight of Giant-Slayers: Or Can Artists Commit Their Lives to Paper ArtMonitor , Sweden.