A not-for-profit organisation, SAGE Innovation Centre, dedicated to highlighting the threat of climate change to humanity, is partnering Art X Lagos, West Africa’s premier international art fair, for its fourth edition.
Happening from November 1 to 3 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, Art X Lagos will showcase the best and most innovative contemporary art from the African continent and its Diaspora.
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The founder of SAGE Innovation Centre, Nazanin Alakija, disclosed that sponsoring this year’s ART X is in line with the organization’s goal of helping to formulate and collaborate with teams around ideas, and bringing together project leaders, designers and artists to help build and scale bold solutions in the fight against climate change.
This is why it is sponsoring one of the
curated projects of the fair to showcase emerging photographers whose work
documents the environment of Lagos, both buildings under construction and
building that are characterized by worn infrastructure and seemingly stand-in
for another time decades past, with a focus on the many areas threatened by the
environmental challenges that plague the city of Lagos.
Through AR technology, some of these
photographs will be consumed by elements that represent ways in which the
environment is currently at risk. For some photographs, the described elements
will build up, demonstrating the risk of continuing to live in the way that we
do.
In other photographs, the elements
dissipate, demonstrating what positive legislation and actions on the part of
Lagosians can do to prevent or curb the havoc wreaked on our environment.
The featured photographers include
Amanda Iheme, Nyancho Nwanri, and Ifebusola Shotunde.
Founder of Art X Lagos, Tokini
Peterside, disclosed that this year’s edition would “contribute significantly
to positioning the visual arts as an important aspect of Nigeria’s creative
industry.”
She further expressed her appreciation
to SAGE Innovation for its efforts at promoting a green economy, particularly
by partnering with Art X Lagos with the focus to showcase the environment
through arts.
The fair will feature a robust line-up of panel discussions open to all fair goers.
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