ROOTS & REINVENTIONS runs from DEC 13 to JAN 15 at Ardhi Gallery
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ROOTS & REINVENTIONS DEC 13- JAN 15
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Press Release Synopsis: Roots & Reinventions
Warazi Art Collective featuring Odyssey Collective
Roots & Reinventions brings together the Warazi Art Collective and guest artist Marvin Abwao of the Odyssey Collective, creating a powerful cross-collective showcase that bridges heritage, innovation, and community-driven creativity. The exhibition highlights diverse artistic practices, ranging from sculpture and illustration to bamboo technology, woodcut printing, digital art, and painting, revealing how contemporary Kenyan artists transform materials, stories, and cultural memory into new visual possibilities.
Warazi’s work explores sustainability, ancestral symbolism, and material reinvention, while the Odyssey Collective, an emerging community of artists committed to creativity, healing, and boundary-pushing collaboration, contributes an additional layer of dialogue through Marvin Abwao’s vivid figurative and cultural paintings.
Together, these two collectives expand the exhibition’s core theme: that tradition and innovation not only coexist, but energize one another. Roots & Reinventions positions Ardhi Gallery as a space where artistic communities meet, exchange, and reimagine the future, celebrating transformation in all its forms.
gallery from previous exhibitions
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Roots & Reinventions
Exhibition | Dec 13 - Jan 15
By Marvin Abwayo