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Glittering Witness at “Refabulations” Rencontres de Bamako 2026

Pleased to announce that I am among the selected artists at the 15th Rencontres de Bamako, taking place in Mali November 26 – January 26 2027. From the Press Release: For over thirty years, the Bamako Encounters have supported photographers who tell, question, and transform the narratives of the African continent. Organized by Mali’s Ministry of Crafts, Culture, Hotel Industry, and ...

Glittering Immersion @Kunsthaus Baselland

‘Mémoires Voyageuses’ at Kunsthaus Baselland from 21.05.26 – 16.08.26. It featured (amongst works by other artists) my series, Glittering Witness, which in this iteration is an immersive experience. Talking about the show: Installation views:

Twilight Protocols for Gehenna

Twilight Protocols reroutes empire’s recursion through ritual, refusal, and rogue updates. A field manual for mythic healing, algorithmic sabotage, and sacred asymmetry.

MUTE

'Mute' is the first single off of Marilyn Carino's new album, 'Sister'. The song expresses the angst of a cultural transplant, her story of up and leaving downtown New York for the highlands of Scotland. At least that's how I envision it.

Bitterness: A Manifesto (excerpt)

A short speculative meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like Reza Negarestani and Michel Foucault.

Sketches / Studies for ‘Dangerous at Night’

Dangerous at Night is a piece of  speculative cinema that explores  and reverse engineers a future  singularity arising from the collision of secret fraternities, social clubs, anarchy, and experimental christianity on Nigerian university campuses of the 1980s.

Orchids

William Gibson once said “The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.” I’ve always reconfigured this idea as the future already having arrived, except we just don’t recognise it. So perhaps we don’t need new tech, just advanced perception. Don’t forget to smell the flowers.

Excerpt: ‘Society of the Birds’

An exercise in speculative genealogy, drawing upon the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence to spin a fabulous tale of bird societies.

Afropunk, Lagos, 1982 @ HEK

My series ‘Afropunk, Lagos, 1982’ will be featured at HEK this November: UNSCHARFE REALITÄTEN – REGIONALE 24»  Saturday, 25.11.2023, 19:30 PM About Afropunk Lagos, 1982 This series of images is a rebuttal to the social conservatism by way of formal and informal repressions that dominated my youth in Nigeria. There was a time when it was illegal for women to wear trousers, it was ...

African Jetset

The series African Jetset is a response to the violence and trauma that has marked the bulk of African migratory patterns, from slavery to economic or conflict driven displacement:  “I wanted to create a corrective space, an alternate timeline where there was never any interruption: no slave-trade, no colonialization, no external war or plunder. Instead the continent developed along ...
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