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Nothing we hold was originated by us. Language precedes the speaker, memory precedes the one who remembers, and the materials

The wise king wrote: There is nothing new under the sun, which implies that no act of creation is made

Uthman Wahab, Soft Monument, 2021 What’s more delusional than a fat ballerina? By all natural and imposed requirements or expectation

Almost every contemporary art practice today would describe their works as an exploration or investigation of memory and cultural identity.

What is the beauty of a place — the objective reality of what it is, or how it makes us

In a previous edition of this newsletter, I argued that the purpose of any art practice should be to pick

There is this argument between artistic style and visual language that is becoming fashionable. It says that style is shallow,

Damilola Opedun, ‘The Meeting Point I’, 2026. I have a love-hate relationship with Makoko. On the one hand, the contextual

The masquerade is more than spectacle. Unpack the sociology behind Nigeria’s most powerful performance traditions — and what bad archiving erases.

There is a particular quality to people who know where they come from. It is not nostalgia or performative pride. It is…