23-10-2018

Time Has Gone, the 9th edition of LagosPhoto

Lagos, Nigeria,

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Event, Exhibition,

On October 27th, the ninth edition of LagosPhoto opens.



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Time Has Gone, the 9th edition of LagosPhoto On October 27th, the ninth edition of LagosPhoto opens. LagosPhoto is the first international arts festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in 2010 and since then it has established itself as a go-to event in the agenda of photography aficionados,  “Times Has Gone” is the theme that welcomes visitors to this year’s LagosPhoto.

From 27 October to 15 November, Lagos becomes the global photography capital with LagosPhoto. Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. Events in the festival include exhibitions, workshops, artists’ presentations, discusses, and large-scale outdoor installations throughout the city, with the idea of reclaiming public spaces and reaching out to the wider public with multifaceted stories of Africa. LagosPhoto aims to create a community for contemporary photography that brings together local and international artists through images that embody individual experiences and identities from all over Africa. LagosPhoto presents and nurtures photography as it finds expression in the exploration of historical and contemporary issues, in the sharing of cultural practices and in the promotion of social programmes 
The theme of the ninth edition of the LagosPhoto Festival, Time Has Gone, examines the different ways that the past, present and future interact within the medium of photography. The theme will be addressed from different facets, looking at and highlighting the questions of momentum, documentation and preservation, taking into consideration the intimacy of the stories and the breadth of the actual concept.
LagosPhoto invited four curators to investigate the diversity encompassed by time: Eva Barois De Caevel, Wunika Mukan, Charlotte Langhorst and Valentine Umansky. Their curatorial slant reveals the non-linearity of time, a key topic of debate in present-day philosophy, and the complexity of our experience with regard to memory. The team chose to adopt polyphony as a way to bring out the vagaries of this subject, which are reflected both in their statements and in their curatorial choices. They invited photographers from all over the world to discuss and tackle this idea of time. Each in their own way, imagining the possibility of an Afro-based future, putting an end to finite time and at the same time the endless desire to reinterpret a past that is weighed down with nostalgia and even hidden phantoms, prioritising the different configurations of the least linear time possible.
So, the curatorial team of LagosPhoto looks at the topic of time from a broad perspective, but at the same time through the lens of a strictly western African eye.
LagosPhoto opens to the general public on 27 October 2018 at the Federal Printing Press Building, Lagos. Satellite exhibition venues in arts and culture spaces throughout the city include Omenka Gallery, Africans Artists’ Foundation, Gallery 16/16, Alliance Francaise, h.Factor and Railway (Yaba). Outdoor exhibitions in public spaces in Lagos include Ikorodu Park, Falomo Roundabout (Ikoyi) and Freedom Park.

Christiane Bürklein

LagosPhoto
from 27 October to 15 November 2018
Lagos, Nigeria
Images: see captions
0_Previous edition of LagosPhoto.jpg
1_Grand Opening LagosPhoto 2018.jpg
2_LagosPhoto, previous edition.jpg
Adji Dieye, Red Fever 2018.jpg
Alfredo Jaar, Searching for Africa in Life 1996.jpg
Amanda Ihem,e Old Federal Secretariat 2018.jpg
Amina Menia El Kettar Urban, from the series Lost Qibla, co commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.jpg
LagosPhoto, previous edition DSC_0022_full.jpg
LagosPhoto, previous edition DSC_0270_full.jpg
Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1856, Geological structure 2017 courtesy of 50 Golborne, Alessandroa Casciaro C Gallery, Dilectal.jpg
Find out more: http://www.lagosphotofestival.com
LagosPhoto is sponsored by the Mike Adenuga Centre, National Geographic, the US Consulate General of Lagos, British Council, Alliance Francaise, Institut Francais and Temple Management Company. This year' festival is realised with the support of our partners, Canon Central and North Africa, Fast Forward, UCA, Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency, Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency, Konbini, Tenaui Africa, Radisson Blu Hotel and The Market Workshop. LagosPhoto is additionally supported by the Ford Foundation.

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