GROUP SHOW WITH YUSSEF AGBO-OLA
RESET

MUSEUM DE FUNDATIE, ZWOLLE, NETHERLANDS
5 OCTOBER 2024 – 16 MARCH 2025

The current era is defined by a series of global crises. Compared with two decades ago, everything seems much closer, as a result of social media. As despair lurks, a collective effort is afoot to create hope and find solutions to heal the world and ourselves.
RESET, an exhibition in Museum de Fundatie’s ‘cloud’ extension, features work by Delic & Huda, Josèfa Ntjam, and Yussef Agbo-Ola. Responding to the overwhelming pace of modern life, ReCharge by Delic & Huda will offer an immersive experience where visitors can recharge their batteries in a dome filled with enthralling video and sound. In a hypnotic audiovisual performance, their aim is to calm visitors’ nervous system using scientific techniques. The University of Groningen is researching the impact of ReCharge. Josèfa Ntjam explores the idea of resistance as a vital tool for imagining a better future, in a presentation that weaves together mythological and natural elements through sound, poetry, video, installations, and sculpture. Yussef Agbo-Ola invites the audience to think about the invisible role of plants in restoring our mental balance, in an altarlike architectural structure enriched with sounds and aromas.

RESET offers a mood-transforming journey, giving visitors the opportunity to seek new connections in themselves and with others. Discover a place where art becomes a refuge, that offers new perspectives on our lives and renewed hope for now and the future.

© All images by Peter Tijhuis

FEATURED ARTIST

YUSSEF AGBO-OLA

Yussef Agbo-Ola (b. 1990 in Newport News, Virginia, United States ) is an artist and architect living between London, Lagos, and the Amazon Forest. Born in rural Virginia in a multi-heritage Nigerian, African-American, and Cherokee household, his work reflects hybrid identities and relationships to different landscapes, ecologies, and cultural rituals. Agbo-Ola’s multidisciplinary artistic practice is concerned with interpreting natural energy systems, through interactive experiments that explore the connections between an array of sensory environments, from the biological and anthropological to the perceptual and microscopic. His practice...
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