Opening Tomorrow I Seeing Otherwise at DADA Gallery Lagos

Seeing Otherwise opens tomorrow, 28 February at 2pm, at DADA Gallery, Lagos.

Across the exhibition, individual practices unfold through distinct gestures and narratives: portraits from Djibril Dramé’s Migration and Identity series appear woven into rice bags marked by labour and reuse; Nuits Balnéaires’ work such as Jour de fête transforms a yam-festival procession into a choreography of transmission; and Sharon Walters’ silhouette-like works gather the visual rhythms of Lagos into quiet expressions of nostalgia.

Elsewhere, Delali Ayivi’s painterly interventions bend colour toward touch and duration, while Kelani Abass draws on letterpress traditions to cut, reprint, and mount images into sculptural forms that navigate memory through material encounter. Together, the works move along an axis shaped by migration, transmission, and reconnection via a shared attention to spiritual–material entanglement.

We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow afternoon and invite you to preview the works in the show below.