🎉 We’re excited to share that G.A.S. alumna Aisha Seriki (
@occupiedbythelense ) is currently featured in Of Presence and Absence, a duo exhibition at kó Art Space (
@ko_artspace ).
Aisha completed a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos last year, supported by RCA BLK (
@rcablk ) where she expanded her ongoing research into archives and cultural memory through a series of site visits, studio encounters, and community-focused programs. During this period, she visited Osogbo and Benin, where she engaged directly with artisans, while exploring both traditional and contemporary fabrication techniques.
Of Presence and Absence brings together Aisha and Motunrayo Akinola (
@m.o.akinola ), whose distinct practices emerge from performative methodologies that question the politics of access, visibility, and belonging.
In this exhibition, Aisha presents a photographic installation that combines staged black-and-white portraiture with small sculptural objects embedded with photographic imagery. The portraits evoke an imaginary, dreamlike atmosphere, centring a female figure who interacts with symbolic props in an undefined, suspended space.
The sculptures foreground photography as both tactile process and archival object. Cast in bronze and taking the form of hair combs, they incorporate photopolymer gravure and cyanotype prints, conjuring grainy impressions of time passed. In other works, Aisha combines metal fabrication and linear structures with photographs to create assemblages that feel like relics of spiritual devotion.
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📍 Exhibition on view until May 21st, 2026 at kó Art Space, 36 Cameron Road, Flat 1A, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.
Installation images courtesy of kó Art Space.
