At the Lagos Biennial, follow a workshop drawing into a projected room

What changes when the work made in a workshop makes it onto the gallery walls? At the Lagos Biennial, the European Union’s programme describes a project led by Italian artist Stefano Fake in which drawings, collages and animations made in a five-day workshop will enter a multi-projector installation. The useful date to note is the following weekend. The EU lists 21 and 22 November for adding those contributions, a week after the Biennial’s 14 November public opening. EU programme note.

What goes into the projection

The EU says the 16–20 November workshop brings students, designers and artists into one production process. Participants make separate pieces inspired by Lagos’s landscapes, traditions and their own experience. The studio THE FAKE FACTORY then brings the pieces into a shared projection environment. The account describes collaboration across those five days. It supplies neither a general invitation for walk-in visitors to join the workshop nor a claim that the projected image reacts to a visitor in real time. Read the workshop description.

A way to read that design is to follow one element from input to display. A drawing can enter as a shape or texture. Once projected across parts of a room, its position and scale change what visitors notice first. That makes the November update a chance to ask whose work is recognisable in the combined view and where its maker is credited. Those are questions to take to the exhibition, where the final arrangement can be seen.

Plan around two different parts of the programme

The organisers list the fifth edition of The Museum of Things Unseen for 14 November–6 December at Eko Atlantic, Lagos. Their opening-day programme lists 16:00 WAT for public entry on Saturday, after a separate noon press preview. It also lists a 17:00 closing alongside later timed entries, so confirm the day’s closing time and access before travelling. The organisers’ ticket page identifies free access to public events for university students and children under 13. Check terms for your own visit. Opening programme · Tickets.

The dates for putting the workshop contributions into the installation come from the EU’s 13 November note. Look for the pavilion in the Biennial’s parallel programme. The Italian Embassy describes that programme as using insulated containers at the same venue. The main exhibition and the first presentation of the Àkéte Collection are another route through the Biennial. Visitors deciding how to spend one day can pick the main exhibition or check for the pavilion’s update first. UK readers following from afar can use the programme and artist list to identify the work before looking for documentation from the organisers. Embassy overview · Artists and parallel programme · Àkéte Collection.

The Eko Atlantic district entrance in Lagos in July 2019. The Biennial lists Eko Atlantic for its 2026 programme. This archival view predates the exhibition. Kaizenify, Eko Atlantic City Entrance, Lagos, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Unchanged. Licence.

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