Joy Labinjo's artwork, Love him and let him love you (2023) is being featured in the group exhibition, Roots in the Sky, at HOME Manchester, curated by British-Nigerian artist, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. The exhibition has been on view from 11 October 2025 until 25 January 2026.
Roots in the Sky is the first institutional curatorial project by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. This exhibition brings together new and recent works by ten contemporary artists whose practices span the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
The exhibition invites artists to reflect on travel, hybridity, and the diasporic experience, drawing from their personal narratives and collective memory as a source of both creative expression and cultural logic. The show explores the cultural pluralism and layered identities that define the Black diaspora.
Painting, sculpture, and drawing are employed in equal measure. Figuration and abstraction operate as shared visual languages. Together, they explore themes of mythology, community, lineage, and transformation.
The exhibition includes works by: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Alvaro Barrington, Jade de Montserrat, Ivy Kalungi, Joy Labinjo, Sahara Longe, Nengi Omuku, Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia, Tschabalala Self, Shaqúelle Whyte.
Text extracted and adapted from Home Manchester website
Image:
Joy Labinjo
Love him and let him love you, 2023
Oil on Canvas
180.5 x 200.2 cm
71 x 78 7/8 in
71 x 78 7/8 in
Image courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary
Photography by Deniz Guzel
November 20, 2025
