Section 02 · Archive
A curated archive of exhibitions, public installations and cultural programming produced and supported by AWCA. Each entry is treated as part of an institutional memory rather than a campaign.
Lagos, Nigeria
The Herds is a global public art project staged across cities, with AWCA leading its Lagos chapter. Crafted by artisans from recycled cardboard and wood, the animals walk through neighbourhoods as a quiet, urgent metaphor for the species displaced by a warming planet.
Lagos, Nigeria
A multi-night programme bringing together musicians, scholars and archivists to examine Afrobeat not only as a sound but as a form of civic dissent. Live performance is interleaved with oral history and unreleased archival recordings.
AWCA Gallery, Lagos
Curated as an open library of speculative imagery, the exhibition presented painting as a tool for political imagination — drawing a line from Afrofuturist literature to the painted surface.
Lagos, Nigeria
Twelve writers were paired across borders for a year of monthly handwritten letters. The accumulated archive — postmarks, paper, ink, omissions — was later published as a limited bound volume.
Lagos Lagoon
Built in partnership with local boat-makers, the library carries a curated collection of Nigerian literature, children's books and reference material. It docks each evening at a different community along the waterfront.
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