After a long month in Lagos, Mic and Mind is a room to sit still for a few hours with other creatives, listen to their work, share your own if you want to, and leave feeling a little lighter than you came.
There’ll be poetry, music, stories, conversation, wine, familiar faces, and new faces.
Friday, May 29
SOTO Gallery, 10, Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi
5 to 8 PM
If you’ve been meaning to come, we’d love to have you in the room.
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At the center of Mic and Mind is community. The kind created when creatives gather in one room to listen, share work, meet other creatives, reconnect with old ones, and spend time together away from the constant urgency of Lagos.
At the last Mic and Mind @sotogallery , the room moved through poetry, music, stories, comedy, essay discussions, laughter, conversation, and quiet moments that stayed with us long after the last person held the mic.
Thank you to everyone who came and helped shape the room with their presence, their work, their time, and their attention.
Thank you @_dstoryteller for moving quietly through the room and holding these moments still for us.
We will gather again on the last Friday of May. In the same carefully curated atmosphere, one that invites you to slow down, listen, reflect, and connect through words, music, and shared presence.
#micandmind #sotogallery #openmiclagos #thejulietnnaji #lagoscreatives
Art in Focus
Ancestral Tree I
Mixed Media
16 × 23 × 68 inches | 2025/26
Olumide Onadipe
This series reflects the continuity of existence beyond death, suggesting that life extends through lineage, memory, and enduring spiritual connection. Like the roots and branches of a tree, generations remain interconnected as those who came before continue to shape the present, their presence manifesting in both seen and unseen ways.
It speaks to ancestry as a living force, where identity is not confined to the individual but carried through time, embodied in heritage, tradition, and collective memory. In this way, death is not an end, but a transformation: one that sustains the cycle of being.
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We are open.
The Earth Holds Our Names by Olumide Onadipe remains on view at SOTO Gallery, bringing together works that engages material as an active carrier of cultural and spiritual memory, where visible and unseen realms converge.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
SOTO Gallery
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#timeandspace #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
Art in Focus
Dimensions
Mixed Media
93 × 103 Inches | 2025/26
Olumide Onadipe
This work explores the dual nature of existence, engaging both the physical and the spiritual as interconnected dimensions of reality. It suggests that the visible, tangible world operates alongside an unseen, intangible realm, each possessing its own validity and significance. Rather than existing in opposition, these realms coexist simultaneously, shaping and influencing one another in subtle and profound ways.
The presence or absence of one does not diminish or negate the other; instead, their relationship points to a more expansive understanding of reality, one that embraces complexity, mystery, and the limits of human perception.
On view as part of The Earth Holds Our Names, showing until May 30, 2026.
#theearthholdsournames #sotogallery #nigerianart #contemporaryart #artinfocus
Highlights from the artist talk with Olumide Onadipe.
An evening shaped by close looking and conversation around The Earth Holds Our Names, with reflections on material, colors, process, and the ideas that shape the works on display.
The Earth Holds Our Names
On view until May 30, 2026
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
SOTO Gallery
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#theearthholdsournames #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
Art in Focus
Eko Bridge, 2024
Mixed Media
12 × 27 × 86.5 inches
Olumide Onadipe
The hairstyle in this work is titled Eko Bridge. In Lagos, affectionately called Eko, the bridge stretches across the lagoon, linking mainland and island, movement and stillness, departure and arrival. It is more than infrastructure, it is a passage, a joining of worlds.
The braided structure draws from this gesture of connection. Within Yoruba cosmology, existence unfolds between ayé and ọrun. Its woven lines echo pathways, suggesting continuity, circulation, and return.
The work honors feminine energy as sacred. The figure becomes a vessel through which ancestral presence, memory, and destiny take form, holding space between what is seen and what is felt, what is born and what is becoming.
On view as part of The Earth Holds Our Names, showing until May 30, 2026.
#timeandspace #sotogallery #artinfocus #nigerianart #contemporaryart
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Mic and Mind.
The evening held an intimate space for creatives to share their work, meet each other, relax, and breathe after a long week in Lagos. People stayed, people listened, and people shared works that asked something of the room, and the room responded.
It was good to see creatives meet and carry a bit of the room with them at the end of the night.
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SOTO Gallery
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#micandmind #sotogallery #openmicnight #openmicnightlagos #thejulietnnaji
We are open.
The Earth Holds Our Names by Olumide Onadipe is on view at SOTO Gallery.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#theearthholdsournames #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
Meet the Artist: Olumide Onadipe
Join us this Saturday, for an evening with @olumideonadipe , reflecting on the works and ideas behind The Earth Holds Our Names.
May 2, 5 PM – 7 PM
SOTO Gallery
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#timeandspace #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the artist talk with Olumide Onadipe.
In conversation, @olumideonadipe spoke about his shift from painting to working with found materials, and how processes of rolling, binding, and repetition shape each work. He reflected on works in the exhibition, including It Is Green On The Other Side and Eko Bridge, and on the use of recurring forms that suggest landscape and the conditions of everyday life.
The Earth Holds Our Names remains on view until May 30, 2026.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
SOTO Gallery, 10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#timeandspace #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
A look at some of the people who spent time with the works of Olumide Onadipe at the opening of his solo exhibition The Earth Holds Our Names, from quiet moments with the works to conversations around them.
If you haven’t had the chance to visit yet, the exhibition remains open and we look forward to welcoming you.
The Earth Holds Our Names
On view until May 30, 2026
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
SOTO Gallery
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
#timeandspace #sotogallery #olumideonadipe #nigerianart #contemporaryart
