“The idea is that there are no secrets in the artwork,” said the Tennessee-born artist Kayode Ojo in an interview with Pin-Up magazine, “some people are tickled by the thought that they could very easily find every object I used and reproduce the piece.” For 52 Walker’s ninth exhibition, Ojo combines everyday and luxury items that reflect contemporary society. Moving between simplicity and opulence, the artist transforms the space into what the gallery describes as an “open-ended sanctuary that exists somewhere between a home, a fête, and a fleeting respite from the rest of the world.” Referring to the Book of Genesis in its title, “Eden” connects this fundamental book of the Bible to systemic racism and expresses Ojo’s view of “the Black middle class as a utopia related to Eden, a kind of paradise lost.” —Jeanne Malle