G.A.S. Foundation is thrilled to welcome Nifemi Ogunro, a designer, sculptor, and woodworker and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ for an eight-week residency. Based in Brooklyn, Nifemi’s practice explores wood as both a material and a tool for holding memories through form and textures. Nifemi uses her work to encapsulate themes around the mundane, joy, rage, friction, and play.

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, September 24, 2026, for Planetary Afterimages: After The Short Century, a two-part event beginning at 5pm with a session reflecting on the zine produced for the convening. At 7pm, contextual remarks will introduce a screening of John Akomfrah’s Testament (1988), that will be followed by a conversation between Yusuf Hassan,  Keli Safia Maksud, and Serubiri Moses.

Multidisciplinary artist Ọmọlará Williams McCallister joins us at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise for an eight-week residency as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. Based in Miami, Ọmọlará’s multifaceted practice spans textiles, craft, research and ecology. In Ọmọlará’s practice, ọ uses fibre in various forms to handcraft works that explore systems of power, ọ’s place within these systems, and how they shape social identities. By creating materials from plants, ọ uses them to create sculpture, interactive and immersive installations, and social practice works.

This week, we welcomed Afsian Aguilar, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist of Filipino and African immigrant descent, to G.A.S. Lagos for an eight-week residency. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Afsian’s practice explores identity, memory and belonging. His works construct symbolic and dystopian landscapes that reimagine biblical narratives, drawing on R&B music, sculptural objects and histories connected to place.