A performance by Atiku
History is being revisited at an exhibition titled Merging Stories which started on Friday at Freedom Park, Lagos. The exhibition, which is part of the ongoing Lagos Book and Arts Festival, is also expected to end today.
The curator of the exhibition, Nkechi Nwosu-Igbo, told Arts Dome that Merging Stories defines African art and the totality of the experiences of an African artist.
Nwosu-Igbo said, ‘‘No culture is unadulterated. Past and present are relevant because we build on the past to get to the present. Our reality is a fuse of lived and inherited history. The exhibition is on identity and was inspired by the never-ending debate on the topic.’’
Explaining that the works to be exhibited included collage, video art, performance, drawing, spoken word, photography and film, the curator added that the participating artists included Odun Orimolade, Aderemi Adegbite, Efe Paul Azino, Femi Odugbemi, Jumoke Verissimo, Jelili Atiku and Numero Unoma.
According to her, the exhibiting artists were selected based on their varied means of expression, style and the strength of their creative stance.
Stating that though the display would not promise to answer all relevant questions pertaining to its theme, she expressed confidence in the ability of the invited art creators to channel their confident voices, tell dominant stories and spark discourses around their practices.
Nwosu-Igbo, ‘‘And it doesn’t still stop there. In trying to be African, we cannot neglect the overpowering influence of shared realities necessitated by globalisation. So does shared experience discredit the very idea of cultural purity or at the very least, cultural identity? What should identity really be? What shouldn’t identity be?
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