G.A.S. Foundation is thrilled to welcome Nifemi Ogunro, a designer, sculptor, and woodworker and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ for an eight-week residency. Based in Brooklyn, Nifemi’s practice explores wood as both a material and a tool for holding memories through form and textures. Nifemi uses her work to encapsulate themes around the mundane, joy, rage, friction, and play.

On Thursday, 24 September 2026, e-flux Screening Room in New York hosted Planetary Afterimages: After The Short Century, comprising a drop-in session with Yusuf Hassan, founder of BlackMass Publishing, and a screening of John Akomfrah’s Testament (1988), followed by a conversation with Yusuf and Keli Safia Maksud, visual artist and producer at e-flux. The event was chaired by Serubiri Moses, curator, author, editor of the e-flux series After Okwui Enwezor, and advisor to Re:assemblages 2025–26.

Multidisciplinary artist Ọmọlará Williams McCallister joins us at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise for an eight-week residency as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. Based in Miami, Ọmọlará’s multifaceted practice spans textiles, craft, research and ecology. In Ọmọlará’s practice, ọ uses fibre in various forms to handcraft works that explore systems of power, ọ’s place within these systems, and how they shape social identities. By creating materials from plants, ọ uses them to create sculpture, interactive and immersive installations, and social practice works.

This week, we welcomed Afsian Aguilar, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist of Filipino and African immigrant descent, to G.A.S. Lagos for an eight-week residency. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Afsian’s practice explores identity, memory and belonging. His works construct symbolic and dystopian landscapes that reimagine biblical narratives, drawing on R&B music, sculptural objects and histories connected to place.