Ade Adekola

© Ade Adekola Ade Adekola’s work spans a variety of media: photography, installations, and interactive art. He is a Nigerian-born Architect turned contemporary artist. Self-taught, he has been making images since his early teens. Ade’s eye is influenced by a blend of visual languages that cut across multiple cultures. As an experimental photographer, he uses technology in the post-production process to create alternate techniques of representation. He works from his private image archive, and occasionally from public archives. His works are made in discrete series – each exploring different ideas. The result is a body with distinct visual languages which question and redefines a path for the future of African photography.
In his recent works, he redirects his practice to reimagining contemporary representations from reinterpreted traditional and urban Nigerian culture. For example, he creates new expressions of traditional textiles; glittering gemstone photo mosaics from ethnographic images; large scale photomontages of urban dwellers; iconic blur images of festivals and optical kinetic pieces from urban photograms.
His work is colourful, and he often uses overlapping images. His innovative compositions add new perspectives to African photography.
He currently lives in Lagos

Boris Debackere is an artist and researcher lecturing at LUCA School of Arts. He serves as head of production at V2_ Lab in Rotterdam, instigating artistic projects that interrogate and illuminate contemporary issues in art, science, technology, and society. His interdisciplinary practice revolves around the experiential impact of new media that constitute our information society. He received the Liedts-Meesen new media nomination, won the Georges Delete
Prize for Best Original Music and Sound Design and received the Ensor Sound Design Award.