Interweaving fabric and metal wire, Eniola Fakile’s work in sculpture, clothing design, and photography navigates the space between the physical and the social. Using materials that vary in density, texture, color, and form,she creates unlikely combinations of silicone and tulle in which delicate fabrics hang on found hooks and wire armatures. Fakile pushes material contrasts to suggest the sense of discomfort, positioning, performance, and balance that suffuse her experience moving through a hostile and othering art world as a Black artist. She likens the sensation to ice skating (which Fakile does on a regular basis), as it requires a similar combination of athletic performance and friction layered under gestures of balance and poise. The prevalence of tulle and light, shiny fabrics in her work alludes to the costumes of professional figure skaters and the fantasy and grace these materials evoke for their wearers.