Dotun Popoola’s Reclaimed Beauty: A Dialogue Between Continents

By Osa Mbonu-AmadiWhen Dotun Popoola’s eighth solo exhibition, “Reclaimed Beauty: A Dialogue Between Continents,” opened on June 12, 2026, at The Village by Tikera in Abuja, it arrived not merely as an art show but as a manifesto of transformation. The exhibition presents 25 original sculptures and installations within 40 groups of organic-shaped, building-block-like artworks arranged together, all forged from discarded metal and repurposed industrial waste. This is not r