Cosmic Inheritance, Lagos Nigeria

Affinity Gallery is pleased to present Cosmic Inheritance, a group exhibition that brings together the practices of Tejumola Adenuga, Nola Ayoola, Mahari Chabwera, Reggie Khumalo, and Pelumi Ponmile, five artists whose works examine the ways identity, memory, spirituality, and cultural knowledge are carried across generations, geographies, and lived experience.
... Through painting, beadwork, portraiture, weaving, and textile collage, the artists consider inheritance not as a fixed lineage, but as a living and evolving constellation of stories, gestures, materials, and ways of being. At its core, Cosmic Inheritance considers what we carry beyond the tangible. The exhibition proposes inheritance as a living continuum; an accumulation of ancestral memory, cultural knowledge, spiritual belief, and collective experience that extends across generations and geographies. These inheritances are not solely passed down through bloodlines or recorded histories; they reside in materials, rituals, gestures, acts of making, and the unseen forces that bind us to one another.