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Ibadan, Nigeria

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Ephemeral Bodies, Enduring Echo

Ibadan From April 30, 2026 to May 14, 2026

Presentation

Ephemeral Bodies, Enduring Echoes brings together a diverse group of artists whose works explore the fragile, transient nature of human existence alongside the persistence of memory, identity, and cultural inheritance. Across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition considers the body not as a fixed form, but as a shifting site—one that carries histories, absorbs experiences, and inevitably fades.

The artists engage the body as both presence and trace. Figures appear, dissolve, fragment, and reassemble—suggesting the instability of identity in a world shaped by movement, time, and transformation. Yet within this impermanence, something endures: echoes of ancestry, rituals, personal narratives, and collective memory that continue to resonate beyond the physical form.

Drawing from varied cultural contexts and lived experiences, the works in this exhibition interrogate how histories are carried forward—how they imprint themselves on the body, and how they persist even as forms change or disappear. The ephemeral becomes not a sign of loss, but a condition through which continuity is made visible.

In an era marked by rapid change, displacement, and redefinition, Ephemeral Bodies, Enduring Echoes invites viewers to reflect on what remains. What do we carry within us that time cannot erase? What traces do we leave behind? And how do these echoes shape both individual and collective futures?

Rather than offering fixed answers, the exhibition creates a space for contemplation—where disappearance and endurance exist side by side, and where the unseen weight of memory quietly outlives the visible body.

Address

Details

1, Ibitunde Yah Lateef Estate Asipa Tipper Garage Challenge
234, Ibadan
Nigeria

Artworks Artists

Ernest Shina Odofin

Nigeria

Oluwatosin Olusa

Nigeria

Clement Nwafor

Nigeria

Oluwabori Gafar

Nigeria

Oluwadamilare Saliu

Nigeria

Wasiu Akande

Nigeria

Victor Sonoiki

Nigeria

Joshua Oyeleye

Nigeria

Kaynan Kayphas

Nigeria

Olajide Kuti

Nigeria

Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa

Nigeria

Ekele Francis

Nigeria

Emmanuel Ojebola

Nigeria

Ogunniyi Oluwatosin

Nigeria

Gobe Joseph

Nigeria

Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Nigeria

Akinboye Akinola Peter

Nigeria

Exhibitions in Ibadan