Naomi Nwaobi Between Scars & Totems

Between Scars and Totems - Naomi Nwaobi

In her debut solo exhibition, Between Scars & Totems, artist Naomi Nwaobi leans into the profound vulnerability of letting go.

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Taslimah Woli Process Stories

Process-led ways of Observing: Home, Faith and Community-Making After Confilt

Taslimah Woli on Home, Faith and Community-Making After Conflict

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Tochukwu Orazulike Process Stories

Paradox of a Resource-Filled World: Exploring Human Relationship with the Environment

Tochukwu Orazulike on Exploring Human Relationship with the Environment

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Zenas Ubere Process Stories

Home, Memory, Belonging: Navigating Displacement through Nostalgia

Zenas Ubere on Tracing black representation through portraitures

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Adebayo Samuel Kehinde Process Stories

Home, Memory, Belonging: Navigating Displacement through Nostalgia

Adebayo Samuel Kehinde on Navigating displacement through nostalgia

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Art, Item 7 & Design Thinking with McQueen Pius

Is Lagos the wrong kind of inspiration you need as an artist?

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Aleruchi Kinika Process Stories

Intersecting grace and beauty through conceptual photography

Aleruchi Kinika on drawing inspiration from catholicism and representing grace and beauty through Conceptual Photography

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Interpreting the Renovated National Museum, Onikan Through a Decolonial Lens

former National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) director Abba Isa Tijani’s tenure is likely to be remembered for the restitution momentum he helped nurture

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Salah Hassan’s African Modernism

Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Rhea’s Street to Mbari

Jacob Lawrence and the Influence of the ‘International’ on Local Modernism

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Coates’ African Objects and Restitution: In the Thought of Achille Mbembe

Exploring African restitution beyond simply returning stolen objects, arguing that true restitution requires confronting the deeper colonial violence and cultural erasure surrounding them.

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Enwonwu's African View of Art

Enwonwu's African View of Art and Some Problems Facing African Artist

Revisiting Ben Enwonwu's arguments about what African art is for, and which of the problems he named are still unresolved.

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Headlines & Hearsay

Headlines & Hearsay: Tracing Communication Across Public and Intimate Spheres

Nathaniel Goodnews on investigating how communication has evolved with newspaper culture in Abeokuta, home to Nigeria's first newspaper publication.

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The Built Environment as Archive

The Built Environment as Archive: Tracing Culture Through Architecture

Orry Shenjobi on reading architecture as a living record of culture, and what a building can hold onto that a document cannot.

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Ololade Lawal in residency

Exploring Multigenerational Living Through Research and Experimentation

Ololade Lawal, in residency at I-98 Art Studio, on research and material experimentation around how generations share space.

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Retracing Roots, Identity and Igbo Spiritual Traditions

Retracing Roots, Identity and Igbo Spiritual Traditions in the Wake of Christianization

Emmanuelle Chima Gilles-Rousseau traces what changed, and what persisted, in Igbo spiritual traditions through a period of religious transformation.

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Jonathan Chambalin at G.A.S residency

Jonathan Chambalin: I'm Looking at Adaptability as Symbolic of Being Nigerian

At G.A.S residency, Jonathan Chambalin speaks on adaptability as a defining thread running through Nigerian identity and practice.

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Tolu Ami-Williams process exploration

Reconnecting With Nature and the Freedom of Process-Led Explorations

Tolu Ami-Williams on letting process, rather than a fixed outcome, lead the work, and what nature offered back in return.

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