Architecture as Portal: Between Past & Present in Everyday Life- Kimnaton Vurzie
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? During the residency, the aim was to build something from scratch. Coming from the North, Kaduna to be precise, into a city I wasn’t familiar with, I wanted the city itself to influence what I would make. The theme for the OUT Residency was Epignosis […]
Layering Narrative of Self-Assertion… Letting go of Expectations- Essel Ekuban
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? Before the Nchedo residency, my primary medium was photography and film. For about four years, I’ve been working on an archive in Ghana, collecting stories from the community, photographing community events and reimagining identity within the community. I had experimented with prints and anthotype, which […]
Human in/actions: Investigating Conditions of Archival Erasure- Victor Obot
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? While in residence at Nchedo, I started investigating how memories and archives, and their consequential erasure, are influenced by individuals. My earlier works explored erasure courtesy of time, but the residency became a space where I explored erasure courtesy of human influence. I inquired through […]
Process-led Ways of Observing: Home, Faith and Community-making- Taslimah Woli
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? I was working on Where the Body Bows, a photography project about religious spaces and the people who use them. I was interested in spending time in these spaces and paying attention to how people gather, interact and go about their everyday lives. Being in […]
Paradox of a Resource-Filled World: Exploring Human Relationships with the Environment- Tochukwu Orazulike
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? During my time at the 1952 Africa Art Accelerator, I was developing a body of work titled Scarcity in Abundance. It reflects on the paradox of living in a world that appears to be overflowing with resources, yet where many people still experience scarcity and […]
Home, memory, belonging: Navigating Displacement Through Nostalgia- Adebayo Samuel Kehinde
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? During my residency, I was developing an idea around home and memory. For a few years now, I’ve been exploring the concept of “home” in my practice. Over time, I’ve arrived at different perspectives of home depending on the phase of my life and the […]
Tracing Black Representation Through Portraiture- Zenas Ubere
What project were you investigating or developing during your research at Angles and Muse? I was working on a book which uses the face as a point of entry to explore visual culture and how Africans have been represented in photography over the years. My research was on photography history, both on the continent and […]
Intersecting Grace and Beauty Through Conceptual Photography- Aleruchi Kinika
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? During my residency, I worked on a conceptual photography project titled Gratia Plena – Full of Grace. The project draws from Catholic liturgy, where “gratia plena” signifies a state of divine fullness and spiritual grace. I was interested in translating this theological phrase into a […]
Headlines & Hearsay: Tracing Communication Across Public and Intimate Spheres- Nathaniel Goodnews
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? My work is centered on my lived experiences and the trajectory of human life, our experiences and how we tend to journey through time. But in Abeokuta, I wanted to investigate how communication has evolved with the newspaper culture because the first newspaper publication in […]
The Built Environment as Archive: Tracing Culture Through Architecture- Orry Shenjobi
What project were you investigating or developing during your residency? I spent my residency researching design, architecture, and cultural preservation through the lens of the built environment. I became interested in the idea that buildings are more than structures; they are records of belief, memory, power, and identity. My research took me across Ibadan, from […]