Visit the VR Gallery
Wa wọ is a sentence in the Nigerian language Yorùbá which means ‘come and see,’ it serves as a statement of welcome and an invitation to explore work installed in the virtual and physical realm by Tomilola Olumide during her Spot VR residency at Stryx Gallery.
Through a playful navigation of the complexities of the realm of virtual reality technology, Olumide seeks to use her residency project ‘Wa wo’ as a site of exploration, experimentation, creation and exhibition of current, existing, reimagined and newly created bodies of work from her multidisciplinary art practice in VR during her residency.
Wa wọ began with experimentations between the creation of free-form digital drawings in dark voids of space with the VR software Open Brush and Gravity Sketch, the creation of augmented reality 3D models of physical hand sculptures; and further productions of physical sculpture.
The end parallels between both modes of creation in the virtual and physical realm led Olumide to observe subjects from her mental and muscle memory, identity and tactile experiences translated as expressions of making and being.