DWELVE: A Goosebump in Memory documents Jadé Fadojutimi’s inaugural exhibition with Gagosian, and features newly commissioned essays, an interview between the artist and the composer Jerskin Fendrix, and poetic fragments written by Fadojutimi herself.

Jadé Fadojutimi is one of the most exciting artists of her generation. In her striking abstract paintings, which are often monumental in scale, Fadojutimi orchestrates color, space, line, and movement in the service of fluid emotion and the quest for self-knowledge. With a fluidity of gesture and a distinctive palette, she interprets everyday experience in ways that reflect a drive to understand more completely the intertwined ideas of identity and beauty.

Since 2018, when Fadojutimi became the youngest artist to enter the Tate’s  collection, her work has been exhibited at and collected by leading institutions around the world. DWELVE: A Goosebump in Memory documents her debut show at Gagosian, New York, in 2024, which included new paintings on canvas and works in notebooks. The title combines the words dwell and delve, suggesting both domestic familiarity and sites that prompt further discovery.

In “A Portrait of the Artist as All of Her Colors,” Harry Thorne revisits Josef Albers’s color theory as a means of repositioning Fadojutimi’s abstractions as a form of self-portraiture. In “Things I Don’t Want to Forget,” Fadojutimi’s painting assistant Marsi Rex reflects on her early interactions with the artist.

In addition to new photography of Fadojutimi’s paintings and notebooks, which are reproduced using a hexachromatic printing method, the book includes poetic fragments written by the artist, as well as a conversation between her and the Academy Award-nominated composer Jerskin Fendrix about the relationship between soundtracks and art.

About The Author

Jadé Fadojutimi was born in 1993 in London. Collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Baltimore Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.

Jerskin Fendrix is a musician and composer based in London. In 2023, he composed the score for the film Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, which was nominated for Best Original Score at the 96th Academy Awards. Fendrix subsequently composed the music for two further films by Lanthimos: Kinds of Kindness (2024) and Bugonia, which is set for release in November 2025. His debut solo album Winterreise (2020) was named Album of the Year by Loud & Quiet.

Marsi Rex is an artist who lives in London. She has a BA in Criticism, Communication, and Curation and a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art. She has most recently shown at Hardboiled, Chicago.

Harry Thorne is a writer and editor based in London. His writing has appeared in Apollo, art-agenda, Art Monthly, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, ArtReview, frieze, and The White Review, amongst others. He is a Senior Editor at Gagosian; former Associate Editor of frieze; and former Assistant Editor of The White Review.