Nigeria: Ekpuk's Homecoming

3 April 2016

Come Saturday, April 9, the celebrated US-based nsibidi artist Victor Ekpuk returns to the Arthouse - The Space for a solo exhibition, titled Coming Home. The exhibition, which is on until Saturday, April 30, holds at the Renault Showroom, along Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Supported by Diamond Bank, Arra Vineyards, 7UP and Renault, Coming Home would be the artist's first major solo exhibition in Nigeria in over a decade.

This show is a logical sequel to a four-month residency the artist had with the Arthouse Foundation last year. His keen devotees should therefore expect to see his newest project which leverages on the city of Lagos as inspiration. This is a departure from the artist's normative practice, as these latest experimental works with three-dimensional forms feature works with the human head as a symbol for the physical and psychological experiences of daily life in Lagos.

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