INÊS VALLE
MIRA FORUM, Portugal. Image: N.W.Holm, ‘Souvenir of lives Past' - Prince Oyekan/Shitta Bey, Capt. Davies, R.B. Blaize, Otunda Payne/Dr. Blydden, Consul Leigh. Courtesy Collection of Charles Gore
MIRA FORUM, Portugal. Image: N.W.Holm, ‘Souvenir of lives Past' - Prince Oyekan/Shitta Bey, Capt. Davies, R.B. Blaize, Otunda Payne/Dr. Blydden, Consul Leigh. Courtesy Collection of Charles Gore
BEFORE, BEFORE & NOW, NOW
MIRA FORUM , Portugal
19-03 - 27.04..2016
Co-curated with Dr. Charles Gore
Artists: Adeola Olagunju, Adolphus Opara, Aisha Augie-Kuta, Akintunde Akinleye, Amaize Ojeikere, Andrew Esiebo, Emeka Okereke, George Osodi, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Jide Alakij, Uche Okpha Iroha, Alfred Carew, Fosa Studios, J.A. Green, J.B. Abibmbola, N.W.Holm, Obafemi Luther, Olojo Studios and Sanya Freeman.
PRESS RELEASE
19.03 > 27.04.2016
"BEFORE, BEFORE & NOW, NOW"
Co-curated by Dr Charles Gore and Inês Valle
TAFETA and MIRA FORUM are pleased to present the collective photo exhibition "BEFORE, BEFORE & NOW, NOW" that opens on the 19th of March at 4pm at MIRA FORUM in Porto, Portugal.
This photography exhibition, firstly shown in 2014 at Bohams in London, celebrates the Nigerian history through photographers that have documented and reflected on its peoples, events and transformation into the country that we know it as today. Nigeria, as a nation state emerged from a diversity of preceding kingdoms, emirates, chieftaincies and other communities via an interlude of colonization by the British. This exhibition contrasts artworks by contemporary Nigerian photographers with a selection of works by their Nigerian predecessors (by descent or permanent settlement) produced at significant periods in Nigeria’s formation.
The exhibition invites the viewer to consider the “before” and the “now” – the similarities and differences in technology, in events, individuals and landscapes, and in the particular ways of seeing as each photographer constructs an imagery about their land. These photographers offer diverse and original visions of Nigeria and the rest of the world. Their images are the product, or rather distillation, of specifically Nigerian sensibilities shaped by the cultural, social and ecologica experiences of living in the country. They articulate the “now” of Nigeria with its energy and dynamism and its contrasts of individuals, communities and landscapes. At the same time they look to the future with its new possibilities in an ever more inter-connected world. The other end of the spectrum is the “before”, whether in the years leading up to Nigeria’s formation or at independence when the right to self-determination was finally wrested from the departing British.
MIRA FORUM
Rua de Miraflor 155,
4300-334, Porto, Portugal
Horário: 3ª-Sáb. 15h19h
miraforum@espacomira.net
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TAFETA
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London W1W 8SB
United Kingdom
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