Yinka Ilori
Forever, 2024
Yinka Ilori is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage, and on Nigerian parables and verbal traditions, to convey new narratives through contemporary design.
The artwork Forever was inspired by Tavares Strachan’s installation You Belong Here, and influenced by Ilori’s own experience of the ‘in-betweens’ of his heritage, which often led to a feeling of not belonging anywhere.
In this work, symbols of love invite the viewers into this space and cocoon them to feel protection through belonging. No one can take this away. Forever.