Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on November 4th, 2025 for Body Memory, a meditative, movement-based workshop exploring how the body carries personal and collective memory. Led by current resident Khaleb Brooks, the session offers an opportunity to acknowledge our histories and consider how future generations might engage with the past. It asks: Who gets to memorialise, and who is excluded? What do we hide from ourselves, and what unprocessed memories rest quietly in our bodies?

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to announce that Khaleb Brooks, a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working across painting, sculpture, film, and performance, will undertake a five-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Based in Brazil, Khaleb's practice investigates the intersections of collective memory, the body, and the afterlives of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Rooted in decolonial and archival methodologies, their work engages history as a living, embodied site, one that continues to shape identities, landscapes, and communities across the diaspora.

The fourth edition of the Lagos Art Week programme brought together global and continent-based cultural leaders in a new iteration that integrated the first ever Re:assemblages Symposium, presented with Guest Artists Space Foundation alongside the tour’s established programme of curated art and cultural visits. Running from 4-5 November, the symposium marked a new institutional pillar within the week, complementing the traditional art tour from 6-9 November, which delivered gallery, museum, residency, and studio engagements, including VIP access to Art X Lagos and signature Foundation-hosted events. This inaugural integration expanded the tour’s scope while retaining its core model of patron access and arts ecosystem highlights.

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to announce that our newly activated Reading Room at the G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive is now open to the public for guided sessions every Tuesday and Thursday. First unveiled during the Re:assemblages Symposium on 4 November 2025, the space is designed for encounters with publications that trace connections across African and Afro-diasporic art and cultural ecologies.

The Re:assemblages Symposium is jointly presented by Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) within the framework of the second edition of the Re:assemblages programme, which unfolds across 2025-26 through a convening series, a research intensive, collaborative publishing experiments, symposia, and the activation of the African Arts Libraries (AAL) Lab and Affiliates Network. The symposium is framed by four conceptual currents of the edition: Ecotones, which engages with transitional zones as sites of relation and renewal; The Living Archives, which explores archives and libraries as active, future-shaping forms of practice, Annotations, which attends to gaps, silences, and margins in the archive; and The Short Century, which revisits Africa’s twentieth-century histories of independence and cultural production.