Remi Kuforiji

Biography

Remi Kuforiji is a spatial practitioner and interdisciplinary researcher whose creative practice explores the intersection of cartography, racial politics and coloniality. Developing systems of critique that challenge territorial distinctions and neocolonial policies of resource extractivism, the artist’s work focuses on wetland ecosystems, foregrounding Indigenous knowledge and ethnographic methodologies as modes of spatial practice. In collaboration with activists, artists, architects, researchers and performers, Kuforiji examines the implications of capitalist enterprise on the dynamics at play between humans and other living systems.

Group exhibitions include Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah (2023); Wey Dey Move: Imagining New Worlds Through Dance and Masquerade, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2022); Worlding beyond Racial Capitalism, Ugly Duck, London (2022); Disembodied Territories, London School of Economics, London (2022); Making Black Horizons, Camden Arts Centre, London (2021); Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020); and Metabolic Selves, Serpentine Galleries, London (2019).

Kuforiji has participated in a residency at Index Biennale, Braga, Portugal (2022).

Currently, Kuforiji is an architectural designer at David Chipperfield Architects in addition to working with Cooking Sections, a London-based collective that examines the systems that organise the world through food.

Kuforiji holds a BA in Architecture at the University of Westminster (2018) and an MA in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (2021).
Born in London in 1997, where the artist continues to live and work.