Ella Otomewo

Apr 12, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Jazmine Linklater |Ella Otomewo

Memory Stone is a new commission at The Lowry mainly consisting of a film, showing in a dark, cinema style format, and an installation room beside offering a space of reflection, containing objects and projected images from the film itself. Exploring dreams and displacement within the context of the British countryside, the performative video work, scored by composer Babak Mirsalari, offers an alternative version of the Northern landscape.

Jul 27, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Ella Otomewo |Even Allen |Uma Breakdown |Emma Curd

Queer writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos speaks of rules as ‘physical, integrated knowledge; you follow the rules without questioning them’.1 This, they say, results in scenarios, relationships and games that lose their playful character where ‘nothing new is created any longer’. These ideas were playing on my mind whilst I explored Luke Beech’s first solo exhibition Winner Breaks First at Humber Street Gallery in Hull.

Jul 11, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Ella Otomewo

My hair is still damp from the rain when I settle down in Gallery One to watch ‘Episode 8: Cris, Sandra, Papa & Yasmine’ (2023) at Touchstones Gallery in Rochdale. I am transported from my urban setting amongst rolling, Northern hills and in to the dense and lush Brazilian Atlantic Forest; the gently immersive experience enhanced by our shared clouds of humidity.