Forms of Becoming

Artplex Gallery is pleased to present Forms of Becoming, an exhibition featuring the work of Kodjovi Olympio, Marissa Mu, and Iqi Qoror. Through charged figuration and a shared interest in the shifting nature of identity, the artists create works that feel emotionally immediate, visually heightened, and psychologically alive. Their figures emerge through distortion, symbolism, and expressive force, carrying traces of memory, performance, vulnerability, and self-invention. United by an interest in the body as a site of transformation, Olympio, Mu, and Qoror explore how identity can appear unstable, electric, and deeply personal.

Olympio is a Togolese artist whose paintings carry a charged and immediate presence. His approach to paint is instinctive and physically engaged, keeping each image open, tense, and in motion. Within this exhibition, that energy gives form to a vision of identity that feels lived rather than fixed. Presence gathers through pressure. Gesture becomes a record of feeling as it moves across the surface. What emerges is a self that remains in the process of becoming, held in a state of exposure that feels at once human, vulnerable, and forceful.

Marissa Mu is an interdisciplinary artist based between Melbourne and New York whose work centers the figure as a site of visibility, pleasure, and self-determination. Her paintings open onto a world of movement, performance, and collective presence. Bodies appear in states of release that feel playful, sensual, and self-possessed. Color gives the work its pulse. Repetition creates a sense of rhythm and community across the surface. Her work holds identity as something lived with others, shaped through embodiment, connection, and the freedom to take up space on one’s own terms.

Iqi Qoror is an Indonesian artist whose work turns the figure into a place where identity feels mediated, withheld, and continually revised. His paintings often begin in recognizable social settings, where familiar gestures, interiors, and human arrangements establish a sense of ordinary presence before slipping into something less certain. Concealment, substitution, and reflection interrupt the image without fully breaking it apart, allowing the figure to remain legible even as it becomes harder to fully know. In these works, selfhood takes shape through perception and social experience, appearing as something partial, constructed, and never entirely available on the surface.

Together, the works reveal identity as something that resists any single fixed image. The exhibition presents a world shaped by tension, desire, intimacy, and projection, where presence remains vivid even as it continues to change form. Selfhood appears here as something continually composed and recomposed through the visible language of the body.

Since its establishment in 2018, Artplex Gallery has been a leader in showcasing high-quality original contemporary art. Located in West Hollywood, the gallery specializes in presenting a diverse spectrum of international artists whose works challenge conventions and captivate the imagination.