Frieze Abu Dhabi 2026: Booth D05

For Frieze Abu Dhabi, Baró O Contemporary presents  The Infinite Within, a solo presentation by Yussef Agbo-Ola (b. 1990, Newport News, Virginia, USA) that transforms the booth into a contemplative architectural environment. Bringing together sculpture and textile, the work explores the unseen geometries embedded within the natural world. Drawing on structures such as cellular formations, the nests of the Arabian paperwasp, and the burrows of the dhub, the presentation proposes that these microscopic patterns are living architectures through which nature organizes and sustains itself.

Resembling talismans, altars, and devotional instruments, the sculptural works are built from an accumulation of threads, fibers, knots, and metal components, including recycled ocean plastic fiber, organic cotton, wool, and recycled nylon and metals. The process echoes the artist’s broader practice, informed by ancestral knowledge, African traditions of modularity, and animist understandings of the natural world.

 Each work becomes both object and threshold: a physical structure pointing toward realities beyond itself. Together, they form a constellation of portals into the hidden architectures of life. To look closely is to enter another world. Within every world, another world awaits.

— Yussef Agbo-Ola