Wunika Mukan Gallery is pleased to present Hypnagogia, a solo exhibition by Blossom Oyeyipo, on view from April 4 through April 25, 2026.
Developed during the artist’s four-month residency at the Nchedo Art Foundation (September 2025 – January 2026), Hypnagogia brings together a body of work that reflects Oyeyipo’s evolving inquiry into selfhood, intuition, and interior experience. Through painting and drawing, the exhibition explores the liminal state between wakefulness and sleep, a threshold where memory, subconscious imagery, and symbolic thought converge.
The exhibition unfolds within this in-between space, where the boundaries of time and identity soften. Rooted in a fictional yet psychologically resonant universe, Oyeyipo’s works trace a journey through shifting landscapes of memory and imagination. Within this dreamlike terrain, ori, understood in Yorùbá cosmology as the inner compass of destiny, emerges as both guide and witness. Life, in this context, becomes a continuous process of becoming and remembering, rendered through layered narrative and symbolic form.
Central to the exhibition is the notion of duality and mirrored experience. The works suggest encounters between parallel selves, expressed through repetition, fragmentation, and shared gestures. Figures and forms appear in dialogue, navigating trials of alignment and dissonance, as time bends and space expands under the logic of dreams.
Throughout Hypnagogia, physical environments function as metaphoric extensions of the psyche. A mirrored garden evokes doubled consciousness, while domestic objects, such as a swing or monobloc chairs, take on symbolic resonance, referencing both intimacy and cultural familiarity within Nigerian everyday life. These elements underscore a tension between the mundane and the metaphysical, where acts of self-alignment unfold in relation to both inner and external worlds.
In Hypnagogia, the threshold becomes a site of integration rather than escape. The exhibition culminates in a moment of convergence, where body, breath, and destiny align. What emerges is not dissolution, but clarity, a steadier understanding of self, coming into focus, lighter and whole.
Opening: Saturday, April 4, 2026 | 3:00 – 7:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: 4 April 2026 – 25 April 2026
Location: Wunika Mukan Gallery, 31b, Bashorun Okusanya Avenue, Lekki Phase 1
