1-54 London Contemporary African Art Fair: London

albertz benda is delighted to present works by Patrick Quarm, Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow, and Larissa de Souza at 1-54 London.

Through layered material processes, these artists investigate how identity and memory are shaped across cultures. Anchored by Patrick Quarm’s multi-paneled paintings, the presentation centers on cultural hybridity and the persistence of diasporic memory.

Working between Ghana and the United States, Patrick Quarm paints directly onto layered African wax-print textiles; the interplay of pattern and portrait reflects the stratified nature of cultural inheritance.

In dialogue, Swedish-Gambian artist Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow creates mixed-media paintings that map kinship and the “in-between” of mixed-heritage experience, laying wax-dipped threads across the painted surface to create a visual network of connection and memory.

Larissa de Souza overlays her figures with embroidery and found materials, engaging Afro-Brazilian folklore to explore how communal memory and ancestral traces shape contemporary identity. Through these layered surfaces, she maps the intersections of memory, culture, and the body.