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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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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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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Home, Memory, Belonging: Navigating Displacement through Nostalgia
Zenas Ubere on Tracing black representation through portraitures
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Home, Memory, Belonging: Navigating Displacement through Nostalgia
Adebayo Samuel Kehinde on Navigating displacement through nostalgia
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Art, Item 7 & Design Thinking with McQueen Pius
Is Lagos the wrong kind of inspiration you need as an artist?
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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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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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Rhea’s Street to Mbari
Jacob Lawrence and the Influence of the ‘International’ on Local Modernism
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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 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: 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: 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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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 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: 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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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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