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Sam Nhlengethwa: Portrayal of the Everyday

Through his large, colorful canvases, Johannesburg-based artist Sam Nhlengethwa asks us to look again and again at individual moments that collectively form a picture of daily life and culture.

24th December 20192nd January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

Wangechi Mutu: Alternative Histories and Futures

Born in Kenya, trained at Yale University, and based between Nairobi and New York City, Wangechi Mutu is a visual artist with a multifaceted cultural identity.

23rd December 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

ruby onyinyechi amanze: Place and Placeness

ruby onyinyechi amanze’s drawings are fragments of line and shape, dynamic elements that disperse until they finally converge at a resting point of geometric composition.

16th December 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

Soji Adesina: Listening Carefully

What does it mean to be African? Who decides what passes or is not African enough? These are the kinds of questions Badagry-born, Lagos-based, Nigerian artist Soji Adesina is interested in exploring

10th December 201910th December 2019Articles Artpapers by The Art Momentum

Biennale de Lubumbashi : Reflets d’un garde-fou depuis le sommet d’un terril

Ce qui autrefois fut un groupe de jeunes artistes lushois (en république Démocratique du Congo), réunis sous le nom du « Vicanos Club » (« notre village »), s’est hissé pour la 6ème fois au rang de la « Biennale »

3rd December 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

Data Oruwari and Diana Ejaita: Mapping cultural heritage

Artists Data Oruwari and Diana Ejaita use drawing to respond to the personal yet Diasporic project of culture keeping.

27th November 201913th January 2020Articles Conversations by The Art Momentum

Alioune Diagne : Une écriture qui figure l’émotion

Du 29 octobre au 29 novembre 2019, l’artiste sénégalais Alioune Diagne présente son exposition monographique « Perceptions » à l’espace We Art Partners à Paris.

17th November 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

Tayo Ogunbiyi & ART X Lagos: Art in Life, Life through Art

For the Curated Projects component of the fourth edition of ART X Lagos, Artistic Director Tayo Ogunbiyi invites the participating artists and the public to pause and reflect on the inevitable intersections between art and life.

16th November 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

Tokini Peterside & ART X Lagos: The conduit for Creatives

Borne out of the desire to upend assumptions about what an art fair should be like – and, indeed, who it is for – ART X Lagos is an art fair with the complex and audacious ambition

15th November 201913th January 2020Articles Artpapers ArtXLagos 2019 by The Art Momentum

“Small Acts”: Wura-Natasha Ogunji on the Performance Art Pavillion

The 2019 edition of ART X Lagos presents several major changes, including the inauguration of the first Performance Art Pavilion.