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.


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