Travel Grants 2024/2025
Mobolaji Ogunrosoye travels to Folkwang Museum in Essen Germany
Mobolaji Ogunrosoye travels to Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany to show her project 'Distorted Realities: Abstract Collages Within Urban Spaces.‘ The Show explores distortion within portraiture through installation work. It is an extension of the series ‘Portraits’ which utilises material manipulation and burning, to visualise distortion and the nuances of contrasting emotions within images of Nigerian and black women.
In ‘Portraits’, the artist is interested in exploring what abstracted collages featuring Nigerian and black women may look like. The work involves photographing women within her immediate environment and exploring multiple ways to distort hers and the viewer's perceptions of them. Hand-cutting and layering are a large part of this creative process. Mobolaji takes the images she captures, fragments them, and layers them to create abstract collages. Once cut and reassembled, these images become defamiliarised and are therefore available to be used in reimagining worlds where African women are complex, multi-layered figures. Follow this project here
Hugo Obi travels to Cape Town South Africa
Hugo Obi travels to Cape Town South Africa for the Africa Games Week. Africa Games Week, the continent's premier gaming event, returns to Cape Town for its annual gathering of industry leaders, developers, and esports professionals. This year, Maliyo Games will take center stage, showcasing its innovative projects and contributing to the growth of the African gaming sector. Follow this project here
PFEMME PROJECT by Pearse Olufemi Tolulope travels to the 16th edition of Corps é Gestes in Yaoundé .
FEMME PROJECT by Pearse Olufemi Tolulope travels to the 16th edition of Corps é Gestes in Yaoundé .
The dance piece is set to spark reactions, raise questions and eventually comments on the subject matter, to then bring the audience into the performance.
Its an intellectual interrogation on the convictions and beliefs of human perception about gender, which inform the intensified movement forms, reflecting auditory experience of complex interplay in masculinity and femininity. The concept of the piece
is quite evident that the psychological or rational expression – is without a break concerned about the issue of masculine and feminine being gender-based, rather than focusing on becoming good as human beings. The conversation of what a man and woman is? will become a conversation engaging the dance artists and audience in investigating how the concept of “Femininity” and “Masculinity” has been generally flawed, viewed and portrayed. Follow this project here