below are select >>> PAST PROJECTS
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Power-Less | 2016 - 2019
"The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like"
- Ben Okri, Poet and Novelist
The title is a play on the word Powerless - meaning to be helpless or to be without electricity. This project is foremost about documentation of the challenges and realities facing Africans in the present (with Nigeria as my focal point and electricity generation as my takeoff point) with the knowledge that as artists we have to observe and show to others so as to add our opinions as well as our part in adding to the discourse on topical issues in our societies. On another layer it aims to show the resilience of Africans and how we would always evolve and adapt to new and severe challenges. And then to show that these challenges, especially in the power sector, needs to be surmounted to pave way for a future that is considerate, fair and just to all Africans, creating equal opportunities in the process.
This documentary project, based on sound and photography, aims to show the current state of the nation with the incessant and unpredictable power cuts, poor electricity distribution and conscious (and unconscious) disregard for climate change through photographs made during Periods of Power cuts in Lagos and Sound Art made from Small Power Generator noise. Towards the end of the 19th century in 1898, 15 years after its introduction in England, Nigeria got its first power plant in Marina, Lagos. 118 years later, after numerous laws and ‘roadmaps for the power sector reforms’ initiatives, the Senate declared that “there is no hope for Nigeria” (Vanguard, 25 May 2017) in the power sector.
AfroSino | 2018
China is in Africa! On-going interactive installation on Asia’s influence in Africa.
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Asia’s growing interest in Africa has (re)emerged as one of the major stories shaping current discourses about economic and infrastructural development within the region.
The project explores and documents, the developing economic relationship between Asia (especially China) and various African countries by visualizing, or mapping, different sets of data that illustrate China’s involvement in economic, technological and infrastructural projects during the past decade.Particularly China – Africa’s biggest trade partner and creditor – bankrolls various industrial, technological, and infrastructural development projects across the continent.
RIGHT: Interactive Map. BELOW: A research text published on E-FLUX.
Waiting For A Revolution | 2015
Inspired by global revolutionary events enabled by social media, the project combines newspapers (as archival materials) and a photography series. Fusing staged studio and street portraiture with newspaper headlines (scans, photos and 2 screen-grabs) – the piece explores, investigates and subverts some of the defining feature of memes. The photos can either be seen as Prints, Animated GIFs as a “Voting Booth” installation with interactive features including Graphics design, Video and Photography.
