What happens when form refuses to follow the rules?

Bringing together Hussein Salim, Yasmine Yacoubi, Helen van Stolk and Ayobola “Zak” Kekere-Ekun, Wild Syntax explores abstraction as a disruption of familiar ways of seeing. Through colour, gesture, texture and material, the artists construct visual languages that resist fixed meanings and conventional representation.

Salim’s layered compositions draw on cultural memory and diasporic identity. Yacoubi and van Stolk translate encounters with the natural world into expressive arrangements of colour and movement, while Kekere-Ekun transforms fabric into sculptural terrains shaped by folds, tension and the traces of lived experience.

Each practice operates according to its own internal logic, where structure meets spontaneity and order gives way to possibility. Together, the works challenge the expectation that art must be legible, contained or easily explained.

Here, abstraction is not an absence of meaning, but a language in the making, unruly, instinctive and unapologetically open to interpretation.