On 27 May 2025, the Yinka Shonibare Foundation convened a Private View and guided tour for patrons and alumni at The Africa Centre, London, spotlighting the latest iteration of the travelling exhibition 'in transit under another sky'. The event marked a significant moment in the trajectory of a project that emerged from Art Exchange: Moving Image, a dynamic curatorial development programme dedicated to amplifying the voices of early-career curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The event also formed part of the British Council’s UK/Kenya Season of Culture 2025, situating the exhibition within a wider transnational arts ecology. A post-tour conversation between exhibiting artists SCARLETTMOTIFF and Larry Achiampong further deepened the discursive space of the evening, foregrounding themes of mobility, identity, and cinematic practice across diasporic and continental African contexts.

The 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblages marks a dynamic new phase in fostering collaboration and experimentation across African and Afro-diasporic art library collections. This ambitious milti-year programme reimagines the stewardship and activation of African and Afro-diasporic art archives, culminating in a constellation of international convenings, symposia, micro-publications, and a research intensive.

We are pleased to announce the 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblages, a dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across African art library collections. This ambitious initiative reimagines the stewardship and activation of African and Afro-diasporic art archives, and will result in a rich constellation of international convenings, symposia, micro-publications, and a research intensive.

Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.) in partnership with the Five Cowries Arts Education Initiative (FCI), is excited to announce My Story of Food: On The Farm!, a two-weeks creative education programme for school teachers and students from St. John’s Primary School, Ikiṣẹ in Ijebu, Ogun state. Through a series of creative training sessions, the project aims to strengthen the participants’ artistic expression and confidence while encouraging them to reflect on the importance of a balanced diet and deepen their understanding of where food comes from. This inaugural project aligns with our core objective at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ which is to raise environmental consciousness and its stewardship.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos from 19–21 June 2025 for AfterImages, a three-day programme of film installations and screenings. Curated by Monangambee, the exhibition marks the culmination of Art Exchange: Moving Image, a curatorial professional development programme delivered by LUX, Yinka Shonibare Foundation, and Guest Artists Space Foundation, with support from the British Council. This dynamic project interrogates the coloniality embedded in archival moving images, with a particular focus on Cameroonian and broader Global South cinemas. Through experimental and archival film practices, the featured works complicate conventional understandings of the residual and the spectral in the aftermath of colonial violence. In this context, the cinematic afterimage becomes both method and metaphor, a trace that refuses disappearance, a remnant that unsettles the authority of linear time and official (colonial) memory.