Scroll Down Some journeys begin in motion.Others begin in dreaming. In the laughter between brothers.In the games children invent to make distance feel smaller.In the imagined weightlessness of escape. Sometimes return feels heavylike memory packed into luggage,like longing stretched across oceans,like all the versions of yourself waiting at...
By Gloria Adegboye Benin City, the historic capital of the Edo Kingdom, has always carried a certain creative pulse. Its artistic heritage stretches back over five centuries, woven through the hands of the Igun-Eronmwon guild, the master bronze casters behind the world-renowned Benin Bronzes. These intricate...
Beauty has been called indulgent, distracting, and it has been disdained for being decorative; as though the act of making something beautiful in a broken world were an evasion of truth. Yet, what if beauty is not merely an escape, but a way of surviving...
As Lagos stretches into itself in the last months of the year. The city becomes busier, brighter and a little louder. One day there’s an exhibition in Ikoyi, the next there’s an open studio in Surulere, then another exhibition in Victoria Island. Nothing happens in...
Healing is a quiet but powerful current, a way of making that acknowledges pain while refusing to be defined by it. Artists across the continent and the diaspora are reshaping the visual vocabulary of restoration, transforming their materials into instruments of care. What once carried...
From Garment to Gaze: A Collaboration in Stillness and Form By Gloria Adegboye In an iconic space where luxury meets art, from the 24th of May to the 2nd of June, 2025, Temple Muse, Lagos hosts Carried by Love, Guided by Dreams, a groundbreaking collaborative exhibition which...
From the Circular Heros Series - Produced by Rafeal Rafael Kouto, Peter D. Abayomi and Ruby Okoro PhotoVogue Fest 2025 By Kudzai Thandiwe Netechi Listen to this article [embedpress embedpress_pro_embeded_source='selfhosted_audio' embedpress_embeded_link='https://osengwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PhotoVogue-Festival-2025.mp3' embedpress_audio_video_auto_pause='false' prefix_nftcreator='false' prefix_nftprice='false' prefix_nftlastsale='false' label_nftbutton='false' loadmorelabel='false' label_nftrank='false' label_nftdetails='false' instafeedFollowBtnLabel='false' instafeedPostsCountText='false' instafeedFollowersCountText='false' instafeedPopupFollowBtnLabel='false' instafeedLoadmoreLabel='false' cPopupButtonText='false' adWidth='false' adHeight='false' adStart='false'...