Leading Contemporaries: In Conversation With Victor Ehikhamenor

This conversation will take a deeper look at the artist’s special commission at ART X Lagos 2022, Ulin-nóifo, The Lineage That Never Ends, as a gateway to exploring the breadth of his multidisciplinary practice. Moderated by Tayo Ogunbiyi, the conversation will interrogate Ehikhamenor’s penchant for storytelling, specifically through the lens of Excuse Me!, composed of a collection of humorous essays. The conversation will also touch on narratives on bronze-making that extend beyond the restitution debate, and address the void that his work aims to fill in institutional collections. Notwithstanding considerations around the artist’s aesthetic principles and style, which often invokes the religious, thus inviting important questions around its commercialisation.