Consistency is Not The Enemy of Depth
There is this argument between artistic style and visual language that is becoming fashionable. It says that style is shallow, […]
Makoko and the Struggle Against a Single Story— A curatorial essay on ‘The Witness’, A Recent Series by Damilola Opedun
Damilola Opedun, ‘The Meeting Point I’, 2026. I have a love-hate relationship with Makoko. On the one hand, the contextual
The Costume Is Not the Art — On masquerade, performance, and the problem of preservation
The masquerade is more than spectacle. Unpack the sociology behind Nigeria’s most powerful performance traditions — and what bad archiving erases.
On Cultural Memory, the Grounded Self, and Why Nigeria Needs Its History Back
There is a particular quality to people who know where they come from. It is not nostalgia or performative pride. It is…
Why Galleries Will Never Go Away
Why Galleries Will Never Go Away Space is one of the most fundamental components of art, though it is often