Phases: Between Memory and Becoming

We move through life in phases—shaped by memory, transformed by experience, and continually becoming someone new. Identity is never fixed; it is formed through the relationships we inherit, the places we inhabit, and the moments that redefine us.

Phases: Between Memory and Becoming brings together three artists whose practices explore personal and cultural memory through photography, sculpture, and painting. Though distinct in medium and perspective, their works are connected by a shared interest in how identity is carried across generations, shaped by migration, family, and lived experience.

Drawing from archival photographs, inherited traditions, digital processes, and portraiture, the exhibition reflects on remembrance as both a personal and collective act. It considers what we preserve, what we transform, and how memory continues to shape the people we are becoming.

Rather than presenting identity as something complete, Phases embraces it as an ongoing process—one of change, resilience, and possibility.

Participating Artists

Adetona Omokanye

Adetona Omokanye is a Nigerian-Canadian visual artist and photojournalist whose practice explores culture, identity, and memory across African and diasporic communities. Working between Lagos and Toronto, he uses photography and printmaking to examine how personal and collective histories shape contemporary identity.

For Phases: Between Memory and Becoming, Omokanye presents a new series of screen prints created from archival photographs of his mother. Through this deeply personal body of work, he reflects on remembrance, love, loss, and the enduring power of photographs to preserve memory across generations.

Nashid Chroma

Nashid Chroma is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges digital technology, sculpture, and material experimentation. Exploring themes of identity, belonging, and transformation, his work brings together computational processes and intuitive making to create forms that exist between the physical and digital.

For Phases: Between Memory and Becoming, Chroma returns to sculpture after eleven years with a new series of suspended fabric works. Combining digitally generated structures with hand-wrapped saree fabric, the sculptures explore cultural identity, masculinity, and the experience of becoming.

Segun Caezar

Segun Caezar is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work explores diaspora, identity, and cultural memory through contemporary portraiture. His faceless figures, adorned with African textiles and accompanied by recurring koi motifs, reflect themes of belonging, migration, and inherited identity.

For Phases: Between Memory and Becoming, Caezar presents a new body of work inspired by fatherhood and the experience of raising children far from one's homeland. His paintings consider what it means to build legacy, preserve culture, and shape identity while navigating a life still in the process of becoming.