Lagos Photo Festival

Time Has Gone, this year’s theme and conversation of interest is intended to explore contemporary dialogues surrounding different facets of time. Artists from around the globe have been invited to discuss, confront and wrestle with this idea of urgency. Each in their own way, they investigate the practices of archiving, preservation, imagining the possibility of an Afro-based future, putting an end to a ‘‘time that is up’’ or the never-ending desire to reinterpret a past, laden with both nostalgia and/or hidden phantoms.

Looking at time both from a macro lens and with West African goggles, the curatorial team sheds light on the long way to go, from the then to the now, investigating diverse configurations of time in the least linear way possible.

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For LagosPhoto, Mary Evans will complete a new fresco on site. The work, titled Passage, a wall- scape of cut out, kraft paper figures, evokes a suspension in time and space. It refers to the passage of time as well as a psycho-geographical reference to transitioning from place to place. Many of the tableaux depicted in this, and other installations by the artist, are reminiscent of barely remembered pictorial passages dredged from her memory as a young child in Lagos.

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