Design Indaba | 11.06.2026 18:34
Yinka Ilori’s, British designer of Nigerian heritage, known for his bold colour and playful interventions that bring delight to public spaces, has opened his latest exhibition ‘Joy through Resistance: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best’. The exhibition is his most personal body of work to date, shifting the conversation away from joy as an aesthetic and towards joy as a form of survival. For Ilori, joy is not an escape from hardship, instead, it emerges through it. The exhibition’s title, borrowed from a proverb familiar across many cultures, speaks to perseverance rather than celebration alone, the “last laugh” belongs to those who endure.
