Uólofe Griot
Uolofe Griot is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves together performance, sculpture, installation, and sound. Deeply rooted in Yoruba cosmology and the oral traditions of West Africa, his work explores the intersection between ritual, ancestry, and contemporary Black experience. Drawing on the figure of the griot — storyteller, historian, and guardian of memory — Uolofe creates immersive environments that blur the boundaries between the sacred and the political, the mythical and the material.
His visual language is rhythmic and layered, combining organic forms, symbolic objects, and archival fragments. Through repetition, gesture, and voice, he evokes ancestral knowledge while addressing questions of displacement, spiritual continuity, and cultural resilience. For Uolofe, art is a space of invocation — a living archive where memory breathes, transforms, and insists on presence.
