Samuel Aiwerioghene | Carriers Of Dreams

In his work, Samuel Aiwerioghene explores portraiture and composition, and Aiwerioghene describes his work as an ongoing dialogue with people. Some of these spring from imagination, collected image material or are based on observations of everyday life. The portraits are deliberately detached from specific times and places. This method opens up the works and allows the viewer to engage directly, without fixed interpretations.

Aiwerioghenes approaches painting as a space to explore his own identity. In his work, he focuses on eyes, skin and hands – as these carry meaning, emotion, and identity. Each serves a different but complementary expressive role. Otherwise, the characters are depicted as quiet, present and autonomous. As the works are not tied to a clear narrative, but follow moods, sensations and fragments of stories, the works can be experienced as individual characters part of a common space or a larger whole.