Soft Skills is the culminating exhibition of 2024 CHAW Darkroom resident Obiekwe “Obi” Okolo. The show, open in CHAW’s gallery from October 8th to the 25th, explores the process of seeing, noticing, and making. Okolo is a Nigerian-American photographer, multimedia artist, creative director, and reluctant writer.
Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and San Antonio, Texas, his work, from an early career in architecture to his recent explorations in the written word and portraiture, are often an attempt at reconciling a relationship between things—mirroring the lifelong reconciliation at play within his own identity as a child of two worlds.
Soft Skills presents two bodies of work currently in progress both concerned with seeing and being seen in the world, in dialogue with the darkroom craft—one that is about deep noticing and time. Join us for the opening reception on Oct 8th and a conversation with the artist on Oct 19th at Capital Hill Arts Workshop.