We are pleased to welcome Ng’onga Silupya, a Lusaka-based curator, cultural practitioner, arts administrator, and art writer, to G.A.S. Lagos for an immersive one-week research residency.  Working across performance, dance, literature, digital culture, ecology, and curatorial research, Ng’onga investigates how contemporary art and cultural heritage can help shape more habitable and equitable societies. Her practice draws on mediation, cultural and visual studies, and art history, engaging narratives and indigenous sustainable practices connected to diverse ethnic groups in Zambia and beyond.

On September 3rd, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Picturing Return: Afro-Brazilian Archives in Nigeria, an evening that traced the histories, images, and narratives of the Aguda community and their enduring presence in Nigeria. Bringing together Pelumi Odubanjo whose practice examines the historical and contemporary links between Brazil and the West African diaspora, and scholar, curator, and researcher Oludamola Adebowale, the event explored the living archive of Afro-Brazilian presence in Nigeria

We are excited to welcome Pelumi Odubanjo, a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and researcher, to G.A.S. Lagos as our last resident in August. Based between London and Glasgow, Pelumi’s practice spans photography, multidisciplinary research, curatorial work, and ecology. Currently a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow and a James McCune Smith Scholar, her work engages with photographic archives, artists, and cultural artefacts to explore dialogues across global Black diasporas and geographies.