Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Olufela Omokeko, whose practice examines pressing sociocultural issues through performance, installation, photo-video art, and social practice, recently concluded an eight-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise. During his time there, he focused on the disappearance of local food cultures and the preservation of traditional farming knowledge, exploring these themes through a multi-sensory engagement with land, labour, and sustenance. Drawing inspiration from Ebenezer Obey’s 1976 song Operation Feed the Nation, Olufela reimagined the hoe, a key Yoruba agricultural tool, as both a sculptural and symbolic element that honours the resilience and cultural presence of farmers.

We are pleased to welcome E.N. Mirembe, a Germany-based curator, writer, and researcher, for a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Their work explores the intersections of literature, curatorial practice, and Black artistic production, with a particular focus on the histories and legacies of African and diasporic literary magazines. Mirembe’s broader inquiry reflects an interest in how these publications have shaped aesthetic production across the African diaspora and how their legacy continues to inform contemporary creative practices.

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased welcome ruby onyinyechi amanze, a U.S. based visual artist, to G.A.S. Lagos for a two-week residency. Grounded in drawing, her practice expansively traverses dance, architecture, design, and fashion to explore the vast and magical potential of space. Working with seven recurring elements, amanze creates minimal spatial interactions that imagine alternative ways of movement. Her current research focuses on developing three-dimensional drawings that challenge how the medium is experienced, informed by the dimensional languages of architecture, design, and choreography.

Earlier this month, we welcomed Kwadwo A. Asiedu, a Lagos-based Ghanaian-Mexican painter and photographer, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Raised within the grounds of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), home to one of West Africa’s largest preserved rainforests, Kwadwo’s early life was deeply attuned to the natural world. This foundation informs a visual practice rooted in abstracted landscapes and a sustained inquiry into humanity’s complex relationship with nature. Through his use of elemental forms, he interrogates the dissonance between human ambition and ecological reality, exploring themes of permanence and impermanence while seeking to reframe our relationship with nature toward reverence, humility, and stewardship.