Light & Love at ALÁRA Lagos

Light Installation

Traveler’s Light (Series: Afrodreams - AI Art, 2019 - 2022)

Using the Úlí art and design system, both traditional and modern, as a point of departure, the project examines implicit biases in artificial intelligent artworks, art practices and machine-human collaborations. A series of light installations exploring Nigerian cosmology and ethnology using African writing systems and scripts (including Nsibidi and Adinkra ) in an attempt to blur the line between past, present and future.

The project has been supported with an Artistic Residency by Goethe-Institut and  

exhibited at Savvy Contemporary Berlin (2021), hFactor, Lagos (2021), Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U) Berlin 2021, the Iwalewa Museum, Bayreuth (2022) and Goethe-Institut Nigeria (2022).

GIF/Video Installation

Power-Less, 2017 - 2022

The project examines electricity access in Nigeria - an infrastructural, economic and industrial challenge, using Lagos, as a case study and presented as an extended reality (XR) artwork that is both immersive and interactive. The project advocates for the creation of more off-grid renewable power systems solutions and highlights pioneers in the renewable energy sector in Nigeria. 

The project received a fellowship from the Magnum Foundation in 2017 and a working grant from World Press Photo in 2020. The project has also been shown at Magnum Foundation, New York (2019),  Lagos Biennial 2019, Shonibare Studios, Sunbury House, London,  Go Digital Exhibition, Retro Africa Gallery, Abuja (8 November 2019 – February 8, 2020)  and a Solo Exhibition at Goethe Institut Nigeria (December 10, 2021 - September 28, 2022).

More: Power-less.com + Power GIFS Portfolio

Waiting, 2015 - 2017

The project fuses staged studio/street portraiture and newspaper headlines (scans, photos, screen-grabs) to explore, investigate and subvert some of the defining features of memes and the art of protest.

This series has been shown at the Art in Resistance Project, Festival Spielart, Munich (2017), Turbulence, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art 2017 and the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2018, Durban, South Africa.

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