Los Angeles Book Launch with David Alekhuogie and Awol Erizku
Join Aperture and Arcana: Books on the Arts for a conversation and book signing celebrating the release of David Alekhuogie’s first monograph, A Reprise (Aperture, 2025). Artist Awol Erizku will talk with Alekhuogie about his newest publication.
In A Reprise, David Alekhuogie remixes Walker Evans’s photographs of African art, provoking timely questions about authorship and authenticity. Alekhuogie’s images draw upon the musical idiom of the reprise—a performance of repetition. In this visual reprise, Alekhuogie confronts the intriguing legacy of narrative and authorship behind Western presentations of African art, and poses timely questions about how Black aesthetics are circulated, accessed, valued, and interpreted today. This event is presented in partnership with Arcana: Books on the Arts. The conversation will be followed by a book signing with both artists.
Images: David Alekhuogie, Scramble for Africa pt. 2/2 WE, 2024, from David Alekhuogie: A Reprise (Aperture, 2025). Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery; David Alekhuogie, Mask 99/2, 2021; from David Alekhuogie: A Reprise (Aperture, 2025). Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
David Alekhuogie (born in Los Angeles, 1986) is a photographer and artist based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from Yale University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was included in Companion Pieces, the 2020 iteration of the Museum of Modern Art’s biennial New Photography series, and was presented in Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth (2021) at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant. Alekhuogie has had solo exhibitions at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles; and the Chicago Artist Coalition. He has participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. His work has been published in Aperture, Foam, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, Vice, and the Los Angeles Times.
Awol Erizku (born in Ethiopia, 1988) lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated from Cooper Union in 2010 and received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2014. Erizku has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas; Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto; Ben Brown Gallery, Hong Kong; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Gagosian, New York; and FLAG Art Foundation, New York.
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