About

Austine Adika (Kenyan, b. 1986)
Lives and works in Nairobi

When one thinks of R’n’B, they might summon the image of 90’s era boy bands singing in the rain, a genre steeped in unabashed yearning. R’n’B as known to most people is an abbreviation of Rhythm and Blues, and in the case of Austine Adika’s first solo exhibition in Nairobi, he further invites us to think of R’n’B as Roses and Butterflies, as he weaves in tropes from R’n’B music in the use of repetition, pattern-making, and improvisation into his artistic practice.

Adika responds to life cycles in nature in the transformation and …