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The Residence organized by the IICD Center is aimed at juxtaposing opposite metaphors, like South and North, displacement and proximity, location and movement, object and the subject resulting to a hybrid of ideas and individual context by the three artists in Residence: Dada Oluwaseun (Lagos, Nigeria), Obi Nwaebge (Abuja, Nigeria) and Vasco Manhica (Mozambique).

In the wake of all the realities of today’s global issues an artist genuine impression would tilt very much towards political issues as a subject or the object constructing the ideas reflected in his work, unavoidable as it might seem, he can still find sanity in the social balance created by the architectural marriage of two worlds apart that co-exit just by proximity of a wall or fence yet economical distance suggesting displacement and social class.

These limitations, movements and cross-breeding social landscape, political experiences and more are the ideas and narratives explored by the artists in residence at IICD Center and will inform the Artists talk this Saturday 28, November, 2015 at CCA, Lagos.

Highlight from TEDxAsoRock 2013 Conference.

When the earth crosses the galactic plane on 21 December 2012 by 11:12am and aligns at the center of the milky way galaxy, will the Mayan prediction of the end of life become an epiphany of reality as much as all the apocalyptic fear: the dark rift, solar flares and magnetic field reversals be the end life on earth ….the end of the end, beside the fact that sun is 93 million miles from the sun and 165 quadrillion million from the milky way’s black hole. Will we be ushered into a new realization as supported by the BAHAI eschatology: those that accepted the messenger will be in the HEAVEN OF BELIEF while those that rejected him will be in the HELL OF DENIAL?.

What if this is the day of the SHEEP AND THE GOATS (The Judgement Day), from the words of Jesus Christ as believed in Christian eschatology or predicted in Islamic eschatology, “When honesty is lost, then wait for the Day of Judgement”, it was asked how will honesty be lost, O messenger of God? “He said when authority is given to those who do not deserve it, then wait for the Day of Judgement.

COMING SOON ! Ahamefula...12.12.12 the end of the end.

Paparazzi at Ahamefula 2011...the begining of the end.