
- CollegeCentral Saint Martins
- CourseBA (Hons) Architecture
- Graduation year2025
“Gambit” (2025) by Tireni Adeniji explores the fragile yet sacred bond between Black mothers and their children, framed through Yoruba symbolism and the strategic structure of chess. Using oil paint and pastel on canvas, the work reflects on cultural inheritance, sacrifice, and survival within the diaspora. The crowned mother, embodying ancestral wisdom, and the child, carrying symbols of pawnhood and potential power, together highlight tensions between tradition and assimilation. Adeniji’s painting asks what is lost, protected, and transformed when identity itself becomes a strategic exchange in systems of power
Final work

Gambit


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