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IV Lagos Art and Architecture Biennial ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: re-(t)exHile :::::::::::::::: February 2024 ************* Tafawa Balewa Square ___________ ArtSeries#150







Art as refuge

A glance at the 4th Lagos Biennial





The 2024 edition of the Lagos Biennial takes place in the heart of Lagos on the grounds of Tafawa Balewa Square, a site named in honour of the first Nigerian Prime Minister. The Biennial occupies this historical space, linked to entertainment in the colonial period as a racecourse and to political, cultural and commercial events after Independence, in order to reflect on its possible meanings in relation to political allegiance, territory, sovereignty, regionality, notions of belonging, encounter, and alliance. It moves the cursor away from a history of ‘universal’ exhibitions and biennials towards experiments in non-conventional modes of exhibition making, shifting from the idea of the work as an end in itself towards generative models and prototypes that continue to activate possibilities in the world.



CURATED BY 
FOLAKUNLE OSHUN AND KATHRYN WEIR



PHOTOS BY MIDE KING