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Jere is a new media, performative and immersive artist based in Berlin and Lagos. Adopting a research based art practice, explores the intersections of infrastructure, identity, and archiving using mediums like performance, photography, video, animation, creative coding, fashion, installations, 3D and XR.

The artistic process employs audience engagement, affect, and storytelling, while contextualizing global to local effects and ramifications, and the digital revolution in political economy & the arts using interactivity, exploration of space, identity, and memory. These artworks attempt to blur the line between past, present, and future, creating a non-linear blend that presents a critical exploration of existing archives and a reimagination of public spaces (physical and digital).

Jere is a Magnum Foundation Fellow, a Digital Earth Fellow as well as a World Press Photo grantee. He has been selected for the Lagos-Berlin Artist/Curator residency 2021 and Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2023. Jere’s work has been shown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Durban, the 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Savvy contemporary, Berlin, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan, ZKU Berlin, 2nd Lagos Biennale amongst others. He is a member of the curatorial collective TXL.

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