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ART X Lagos is delighted to share the recipients of the Access Bank ART X Prize for 2022. Dafe Oboro, a talented Filmmaker and Photographer, has been honored with the Nigeria Award, while Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, a multifaceted Artist, Writer, and Researcher, has attained the Africa/Diaspora Award.
This extraordinary journey was guided by our 2022 Prize Curator, Jumoke Sanwo. In cooperation with our esteemed jury which included Professor Peju Layiwola, artist, art historian and writer; Victor Ehikhamenor, multimedia artist, writer and Founder of Angels and Muse; Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Founder and Artistic Director of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin and Sonsbeek 20–24; Maria Varnava, Founder and Director of Tiwani Contemporary; Gabi Ngcobo, artist, educator and Curatorial Director of the Javett Art Center at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP); and Alessio Antoniolli, Director of Gasworks & Triangle Network, London.
We extend appreciation to Access Corporation for their support and commitment to the advancement of the arts ecosystem, both within Africa and on a global scale. We are honored to present a visual presentation that offer an exploration of the artistic practices and experiences of our esteemed awardees, Dafe Oboro and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, during their tenure at the Gasworks UK Residency and Yinka Shonibare GAS Foundation NG Residency.
2022
JURY
Alessio Antoniolli
Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network
Gabi Ngcobo
ARTIST, EDUCATOR & CURATORIAL DIRECTOR, JAVETT ART CENTRE
Professor Peju Layiwola
Artist and Historian
Maria Varnava
Founder, Tiwani Contemporary
Victor Ehikhamenor
Artist
Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Artistic Director, Savvy Contemporary
2023
2022
NIGERIA WINNER
DAFE OBORO
Dafe Oboro (b.1994) is an artist who works predominantly in photography and film. Drawing motifs from fashion and popular culture, Dafe uses evocative sound and imagery to contemplate questions of masculinity, movement across time and space, and the socio-political state of contemporary Nigeria, and greater Africa. Dafe aims to destabilize the often reductive understandings of Africa in mainstream popular media and open up room for a more nuanced engagement with the realities of the artist’s cultural context.
Dafe was the 2020 recipient of the film prize at The Future Awards Africa, and a 2020 nominee for Dazed Magazine’s Dazed100 list of people shaping youth culture. Dafe’s film work has been screened at various venues and festivals in London (V&A Museum - Friday Late & London Short Film Festival, 2021), Lagos (ART X Live! 2019), Milan (Fashion Film Festival Milano, 2019), Eindhoven (Dutch Design Week, 2019) and Edinburgh (Africa in Motion, 2019).
2022
AFRICA / DIASPORA WINNER
BELINDA KAZEEM-KAMIŃSKI
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a Vienna-based writer, artist, and researcher whose works manifest themselves through a variety of media. Rooted in Black feminist theory, she has developed a research-based and process-oriented investigative practice that deals with the condition of Black life in the African diaspora.
She interlaces with varying spaces and temporalities, thereby resisting a clean-cut separation between documentary and speculation.
Her solo and group exhibitions include: Seven Scenes, Camera Austria Graz (3.9.-20.11.2022), If A Tree Falls In A Forest (2022) Les Recontres d’Arles, Emplotment (2022), Museum Ludwig Budapest, KAS (2022) Centrale Fies, Solo-Exhibition Kunsthalle Wien (2021), The World Is White No Longer. Ansichten einer dezentrierten Welt (2021) Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
Her screenings include The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Diagonale, Vancouver International Film Festival e.g. Her awards and prizes include: Camera Austria Award (2021), Doc-Grant Austrian Academy of Science (2018-2020), Cathrin Pichler Prize (2018).
2023
2022
AFRICA / DIASPORA WINNER
Honourable Mentions
FINALISTS
KINGSLEY AYOGU
Nigeria
LOIS ARDE-ACQUAH
Ghana
Louisa Marajo
France/Martinique
MALLORY LOWE MPOKA
Canada
MATTHEW EGUAVOEN
Nigeria
NEEC NONSO
Nigeria
TOLULOPE AMI-WILLIAMS
Nigeria
YETUNDE OLAGBAJU
United States
2022
JURY
Alessio Antoniolli
Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network
Gabi Ngcobo
ARTIST, EDUCATOR & CURATORIAL DIRECTOR, JAVETT ART CENTRE
Professor Peju Layiwola
Artist and Historian
Maria Varnava
Founder, Tiwani Contemporary
Victor Ehikhamenor
Artist
Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Artistic Director, Savvy Contemporary
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