Showing at this year’s Lagos Photo, which begins this week, is Fortia: a breath-taking series of images in which a masked black woman, poses stunningly in a red dress. Keyezua, the artist, is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands and is returning to Lagos Photo for the second year running. She sees herself as a storyteller, currently reinventing herself to tell the day-to-day stories of women around the world that make her uncomfortable to remain silent.
On an uncharacteristically warm April day, we meet Bonaventure Ndikung at SAVVY Contemporary. Dressed in a two-piece suit with a colorful cravat, the erudite curator and biotechnologist certainly cuts an imposing figure — but conversation quickly reveals a generosity of perspective equal to that of his renowned intellect.
In SERIES #3 we are happy to host online for a close-up artist interview ERIC 1KEY who is an independent poet, spoken word artist, emcee, performer, actor and blogger from Kigali (Rwanda).
Let’s play. Lass uns spielen. Let us pretend. Let’s invent a set of terms and then let us believe in the terms we’ve invented, shall we? Let’s make these terms and conditions apply, but only providing that they apply here, where we can implement the very logic that birthed it all. Let’s go with the flow; roll in the zeitgeist of play, but let’s not get blasé. Let’s take it all seriously, because play is serious.
The works of artists from Kumasi and Hamburg, joined by a recent chain of events, are presented to you this exhibition.
