Mapping Presence | Art X Lagos ’26, Lagos Nigeria

Affinity Gallery presents Mapping Presence, a group exhibition bringing together four artists whose practices explore memory, identity, belonging, and the complexities of contemporary African life.
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Buqaqawuli Nobakada paints Black women in soft, intimate moments, using acrylic on hand-prepared lace to centre hyper-femininity as a space of power and self-determination.

Lulama Wolf works in acrylic and sand, building pared-back figures whose surfaces carry the texture of earth and the weight of remembered form.

Pelumi Ponmile assembles aso òkè into dense collaged crowds, taking his titles from Yoruba proverbs about inheritance, cost and growth.

Tejumola Adenuga draws in ink on canvas, where portraiture unravels into line and the figure is held between presence and dissolution.

Shown together at Art X Lagos 2026, the four practices map presence as something made rather than given – assembled from material, memory and the act of looking.