Curation & Criticism
OFFSCREEN Paris || 2024 || Site
Assistant curator
Gordon Matta-Clark || Galerie la Patinoire Royale Bach || 2024 || Site
Assistant curator
June Crespo - Guggenheim Bilbao || 2024 || Artforum || Web
Review
Maison OFFSCREEN Nightcap Fireside Chats || 2024 || Site
Curator
Lebohang Kganye || Galerie la Patinoire Royale Bach || 2025 || Site
Assistant Curator
Carlos Cruz-Diez || Galerie la Patinoire Royale Bach || 2025 || Site
Assistant Curator
Maison OFFSCREEN Curatorial Residency || 2024 || Site
Curator
Artforum Archives Exhibition || 2024 || Site
Co-Curator
Material Photographies Research Group || 2023 | Site
Co-curator
The Conservation Lab || 2023 || Museum of Care
Co-curator
The Listening Biennial || 2022 || PDF
Curatorial concept selected for participation at the Listening Academy of the Listening Biennial, London.
On Binding – Notes from Venice || 2022 || Riot Material || Web
Venice Biennial Art & Dance; Rocío Molina, Eglé Budvytyté.
The Ephemeral Palace || 2022 || Riot Material || Web
Paris Photo; Alexey Titarenko.
Museum of Injury || 2021 || Riot Material || Web
On museums as the physicalization of how we narrate the world and exhibition as form.
Break//Breathe ||2021|| Riot Material || Web
Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Roland Barthes, Édouard Glissant.
Photography as Bildungsroman || 2020 || Riot Material || Web
Jason Eskenazi.
We Are All Sentimental || Senegal || 2017 || Nataal ||PDF
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Revue Noire.
On Reverence and Relation || 2019 || PDF Slides Haverford Magazine Profile
Transcript and slides of a talk given at Haverford College on portraiture, reverence, the tangibility and visibility of relationships in photographs, violent and loving looking, and photography that extends past the frame into sculptures, dimensionality, silence and relation. Also on Rahima Gambo, Ivan Forde and Tina Campt.
Interiors || Arts and Africa || and Litro || 2019
On intimacies, portraiture and reverence.
Streets of Goma || Democratic Republic of Congo || 2018 || The Common || WEB
On unary vs layered photographs, and, photographing feelings
Dustin Thierry || Amsterdam || 2020 || Der Greif || WEB || Extended Version || WEB
Healing is at the heart of Dustin’s work…The tender portraits are unadorned, raw, deeply human and, of course, opulent.
David Adjaye || Nigeria|| 2017 || Moon Man Magazine || PDF
An Essay on the Alara store designed by David Adjaye in Lagos, and on desperately needed bombastic self love; regal, radical architecture; itchy ascension and uneasy inequalities.
Sarah Moon || 2017 || Moon Man Magazine || PDF
“Photography is pure fiction,” ethereal photographer Sarah Moon once said. “I don’t believe that I am making any defined statement. Instead, I am expressing something, an echo of the world maybe.”
Vivian Sassen || 2017 || Moon Man Magazine || CLIP
An exploration of nuance, and how Vivian Sassen’s emotional, abstract, art photography disrupts facile debates on images in Africa.
Roger Ballen || 2017 || Moon Man Magazine || PDF
“The bioenergetic system of psychoanalysis suggests that feelings, habits and lives are etched on and embedded in the body. In Ballen’s graphic depictions we see how the world crushes the human spirit, which crushes the body. In these photos Ballen forces us to stare at human hypocrisy and the quotidian, violent flaws in human nature. It is slightly nauseating.”
Divine Collaboration || Nigeria || 2018 || It’s Nice That || WEB
On artist and album cover designer Lemi Ghariokwu, Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and tumultuous, creative love.
Strut || Lagos || 2016 || Nataal || WEB
Wura-Natasha Ogunji.
Asmara with the Luminaries || Asmara || 2019 || WePresent || WEB
On Eritrean history as told through its love songs.
The Necessity of Dreams || Nigeria || 2017 || IAM Intense Art Magazine || PDF
Peju Alatise, and on dreaming as a survival mechanism, the tragic poignancy of apt social commentary, and flight as escape, magic and liberation.
Falana || Lagos || 2016 || Nataal || WEB
A profile of musician Falana, and on dreams, faith, self-creation, and the jarring but essential pupa phase.
Art Residencies Flourish in Lagos || 2016 || Happening Arts || PDF
Dak’art || Dakar || 2016 || Nataal || WEB
On the Dak’art Biennial for Contemporary African Art, a love letter to Dakar, the City in the Blue Daylight.
Like Play, Like Play || Dakar || 2016 || PDF
Catalogue for Modupeola Fadugba’s award-winning presentation at the Dak’art Biennial for Contemporary African Art. On weighty games and the depth beneath the sparkle.
Each Passing Day || Lagos || 2015
Catalogue for Akintunde Akinleye retrospective at Red Door Gallery.
Design is the Personality of an Idea || Lagos || 2015 || PDF
Group exhibition of female artists from around the continent and the diaspora at the Ford Foundation Lagos, with the African Artists Foundation. The concept was on world creation, delusion, and individuality.