An original red, blue and gold Asemystic painting by Kamau Abayomi

Asemystic art · Kamau Abayomi

Between symbol
and silence.

Asemystic Art is Kamau’s term for a visual language that brings asemic writing into relationship with mystical symbolism. Meaning remains open, inviting a personal encounter with gesture, form and the unseen.

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Yasuke’s Hidden Shrine exhibition in Ma_Atelier · Nara, Japan

Ma_Atelier · Nara, Japan · 2024

Yasuke’s Hidden Shrine

In a small mountain village in Nara, Japan, a shrine appeared honoring Yasuke, the African samurai who served Oda Nobunaga. Paintings, objects and the architecture of the space form an encounter with memory, presence and spiritual imagination.

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Evaporate Until Infinite exhibition in Bali, Indonesia

Bali, Indonesia · 2021

Evaporate Until Infinite

An interdisciplinary, intercultural and interactive exploration of ego death and divine rebirth. The exhibition follows the weaving and unweaving of identity, opening questions of personal identity, cosmic identity and the possibility of releasing what is false.

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