‘Seeing Otherwise’ closes tomorrow Sunday 17.
Works from Drame’s Migration and Identity series present images as layered artifacts. Photographic portraits are woven into materials that circulate through everyday life such as rice bags, objects marked by trade routes, labour, and reuse. Each piece bears the weight of movement, with seams, folds, and frays becoming part of the composition, tracing lives shaped by circulation and adaptation.
It’s the last weekend to catch our group show ‘Seeing Otherwise’ which closing Sunday 17 May.
Featured in the exhibition is Nuits Balnéaires, an Ivorian multidisciplinary visual artist, art director, and poet based in Grand-Bassam. His rhizomatic practice explores territories of exile, the passage of time and nostalgia, and the social structures and mechanisms that underpin the multiculturalism existing along the current Gulf of Guinea region. Over the years, his works have opened him to a new perspective of the collective imagination of Côte d’Ivoire.
In 2025, Nuits Balnéaires was named the second laureate of Latitudes, an international programme conceived by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès to support contemporary photographic creation.
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we are open to receiving applications from non Lagos based applicants for the writer and social media manager roles.
This Saturday at @thedadagallery with @athirdspace___ . Love is the most documented subject in African music. Tender Nigerian men are a little harder to find.
Through the 60s to the 90s, Nigerian boy bands, solo acts, and private label artists recorded both the highs of love and the heartbreak that usually comes after. We’ll discover the ones that loved out loud, crashed out, and made some amazing records when it didn’t work out.
I’m also excited to announce our first ever talk. Joining us is Uche Ikonne, a good friend and music historian sharing insights from years of researching and documenting these sounds.
25 seats only. Link in bio.
#jaysrecordstash #deeplistening #jlb005
Oyinkan Dada shows us their craft. @thedadagallery once an old ikoyi duplex, has been reshaped and into open space and a flood of natural light. Skylight’s frame exhibited art pieces, and accent walls draw focus.
The space was built to function as much like a canvas as the art pieces themselves, highly adaptable to diverse events and instalments. A reformed heritage home for representing contemporary black art.
Architecture by @moeaa.feed
#africanarchitecture #africanart #lagosrealestate #compoundafrica #nigeria
Ayivi’s layered photographic works resist closure. By painting onto the backdrop as the image is taken and again onto the surface of the finished photograph, she disrupts photography’s archival role as an arbiter of truth and possession. Colour and gesture are not applied as embellishment but as active forces that bend the image toward touch, play, and duration. Her practice insists on the inseparability of the numinous and the physical, honouring the fluid, relational lives of her subjects.
Delali Ayivi’s wofks are now on view at DADA Gallery until May 17.
Featured in our ongoing exhibition ‘Seeing Otherwise’ open in Lagos, Sharon Walters’ layered works approach photographic images as grounds of both concealment and revelation. Articulated through silhouette-like, redacted self-portraits, outlines in her works such as Longing and Belonging are filled with urban scenes drawn from the visual rhythms of Lagos, accumulating into quiet expressions of nostalgia. Through cutting, overlay, and assemblage, Walters allows shadowed form to contain the residue of an interior past. Her pared figures neither fully withdraw nor fully declare themselves; instead, they press gently against the limits imposed on how Black subjects are seen.
Artworks:
SHARON WALTERS
Longing and Belonging I, 2024
Papercut Giclee print on Archival Paper
30 x 40 cm / 42 x 53 cm framed
SHARON WALTERS
Longing and Belonging II, 2024
Papercut Giclee print on Archival Paper
30 x 40 cm / 42 x 53 cm framed
🌐⭐️DADA Gallery featured in @timeoutlondon as written by @viviennedovi as a place to visit in Lagos (ranked as one of the 50 best cities in the world!).
Images in slides 3 to 6 taken at the opening of our ongoing exhibition, ‘Seeing Otherwise’. Open till the end of April. Images by @omoaqin and @mizan0bel
