It was such a joy creating these prints for @orangecultureng while working with my friend @theorangenerd on the his brands SS26 collection.
My first degree is in Textile design and honestly, I don’t think anyone ever remembers that. We are in an industry that fears collaboration with people that work in the same space.
Bayo chased me down on the matter and I am grateful to our friendship. 9 years after that first degree, I finally designed prints for someone other than @sisiano (which is my clothing brand for those who don’t know)
I love the true space of collaboration (thanks to theatre) and hopefully I allow myself do more.
#tocreatingbeautifulthings
I only want to create beautiful things🥰
On the 5th of January 2025, I listed the things I wanted to work on creatively. (Slide 2)
LOST / LUST Exhibition
Murmuration SS26
Twenty Naira
‘In all of it’ didn’t happen but there’s always next year.
Thank you for supporting me in 2025, I appreciate you🥰
OPENING WEEKEND continues today📌
Come experience my new body of work ‘LOST/LUST’
My second solo exhibition
Exhibition runs till July 5th.
Yenwa Gallery presents LOST,LUST curated by my incredible friend @ugonnaibe . The exhibition reflects on moments of closeness and distance, exploring how emotional intensity shapes memory and perception. Sisiano’s figures are marked by quiet tension and restraint, revealing as much in their silences as in their gestures.
Yenwa Gallery, 1–7 Muri Okunola St, VI, Lagos
Yenwa Gallery is pleased to present Lost/Lust, the second solo exhibition by Paolo Sisiano.
This new body of work extends the artist’s exploration of emotional intensity and introspection, tracing the space between longing and presence, distance and desire. Where his debut solo exhibition lingered in the quiet aftermath of personal transformation, Lost/Lust turns toward the charged, uncertain moments surrounding intimacy—before it arrives, as it flickers, or just after it fades.
Sisiano’s compositions continue to center the figure, now with greater tension and restraint. There is softness, but it remains unsettled. Gesture, repetition, and suggestion shape his visual language, with attention to what is withheld as much as what is revealed.
Lost/Lust resists resolution. It holds space for contradiction, where proximity and absence exist in the same breath, and the emotional weight of wanting shifts how we see, remember, and relate.
14 JUNE - 5 JULY
Yenwa Gallery
1-7 Muri Okunola St, Victoria Island, Lagos
