Re:assemblages Symposium

Belinda Holden

Belinda leads on the programme, partnerships, fundraising and governance at both Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria and Yinka Shonibare Foundation. In 2020, during the global pandemic, she launched Guest Projects Digital to support artists and curators in developing and sharing their work. In 2022 she firmly established the Guest Artists Space residency programme in Lagos with the artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.

With over 20 years of international experience, Belinda has developed and delivered culture-driven programs and commissions. She co-founded the arts consultancy T Projects in Melbourne and served as a strategic arts consultant for the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Creative Programme in Australia. From 2012 to 2017, she worked with the cultural agency Futurecity, developing cultural strategies, commissioning significant artworks and leading teams in London before becoming Head of the Sydney office.

Belinda excels in the integration of communities, art, design, and the built environment. With extensive experience in initiating and developing arts organisations and overseeing charity governance, she has a track record of establishing organizations from the ground up. She devises strategic programs, cultivates partnerships, and formulates funding strategies. Her expertise includes successfully initiating and delivering programmes and projects across hospitals, schools, housing developments, transport and cultural infrastructure.

Cosmo Whyte

Cosmo Whyte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His interdisciplinary practice explores interstitial subjectivity through engagement with personal and public archives. He positions the archive as both athreshold and a site of disruption, interrogating its boundaries and challenging distinctions between what is preserved and what resists containment.

Whyte has received the Art Matters Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (both 2019), the Working Artist Award and The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions Fellowship (2018), the Artadia Award (2016), and the Edge Award (2010).

His work is included in the collections of the High Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, National Gallery of Jamaica, International African American Museum, Picker Art Gallery (Colgate University), the 21c Collection, the Hallmark Art Collection, and the Speed Art Museum.

Miatta Kawinzi

Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, researcher, writer, and educator. Her practice explores cultural hybridity, personal and collective memory, home, belonging, and the poetics of freedom dreaming across African/Diasporic imaginaries, geographies, and temporalities. Of Liberian and Kenyan heritage, she is based in New York. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College.
 

Her work has been presented at Smack Mellon, Knoxville Museum of Art, the Africa Center, Des Moines Art Center, PS122 Gallery, Pan African Film Festival with LACMA, ICA LA, CUE Art Foundation, New Orleans Film Festival, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
 

She is the recipient of the 2024 Creative Capital Award, 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, and 2021-23 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Select residencies include Àsìkò Art School (CCA, Lagos & ARD; Cairo), Smack Mellon (NY), MacDowell (NH), Cité internationale des arts (Paris), and the Bag Factory (Johannesburg).

Najha Zigbi-Johnson

Najha Zigbi-Johnson is a writer, educator, and cultural organizer. Her Harlem-based practice explores the intersections of contemporary Black art, the built environment, and social movements. She is the editor of Mapping Malcolm, a transdisciplinary publication that engages the legacy of Malcolm X in the built environment. Najha’s work has been published by New York Magazine, Artforum, SEEN Journal, Essence, White Cube Gallery and more. Najha was raised in and currently resides in Harlem. Najha is a graduate of Guilford College and Harvard Divinity School, and was subsequently a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Architecture Preservation and Planning at Columbia University.

Pujan Karambeigi

Pujan Karambeigi is a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University and the 2024–25 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). His research focuses on institutional histories of art, with particular attention to how art became a tool for nation-building in the context of postwar decolonization. He is the editor of downtowncritic.net, a former contributing editor at Jacobin, and his writing has appeared in Art in America, Texte zur Kunst, ARTMargins, Mousse Magazine, Artforum, and other publications. He has curated exhibitions at ISLAA New York, the Wallach Art Gallery, and Felix Gaudlitz.

sadé powell

sadé powell is a concrete poet from New York City, exploring performative writing through experimental print and paper techniques. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1930s royal typewriter to deploy dissemblance as black feminist poethics. she is a 2025 Jerome Fellow in Literature and holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School for the Arts. she is the author of periodluv(Belladonna* Collaborative), and her chapbook wordtomydead (Ugly Duckling Presse) received the 2025 Anna Rabinowitz Award. her debut poetry collection dontbeabitterbtch is out now with Selva Oscura Press.

Serubiri Moses

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator, editor, and author based in New York City. His writing is primarily concerned with theories of African art and exhibition histories, and his exhibitions are rooted in methods of collective teaching and listening as an epistemic practice. He serves as part-time faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice, Germany/United States; Dark Study, United States; Digital Earth Fellowship, Netherlands; and delivered lectures at Williams College, Massachusetts; Yale University, Connecticut; University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The New School and basis voor aktuelle kunst, Netherlands; College of the Atlantic, Maine; and University of the Arts Helsinki. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2021); the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY (2019); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumnus of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He is Contributing Editor at e-flux journal, and his forthcoming book Judith Namala: A Novella is published by CARA.  

E.N. Mirembe

Mirembe is a cultural worker who works as a curator, writer and researcher. They are currently based at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt. Their curatorial practice is founded on an interest in work by Black writers and artists as an experimental ground for conversation, critical fabulation, play, theory, and method. 

They curated exhibitions including; Forms of Fray (The African Arts Trust, 2025), The Geography of Fixed Things (ARAK Collection, 2025), Njabala: An Elegy (Makerere Art Gallery, 2024), at the limit of dream (Brussels, 2023). Together with Rosie Olang' Odhiambo they have co-curated in transit under another sky, an exhibition that has had iterations in Kampala, Nairobi, London, and at the 2025 Coventry Biennial. 

Mirembe's writing is published in Artforum, Africa is a Country, African Arguments, and others 

Maryam Kazeem

Maryam Kazeem is a writer and independent researcher. Her practice makes connections between archival research and the multidimensional nature of language. Through iranti press, a publishing experiment based in Lagos, Nigeria, which she founded in 2021, she explores publishing as social practice. She completed her MFA residency at the California Institute of the Arts as a Truman Capote Fellow where she also taught courses in Black cultural and performance studies as a Teaching Fellow for the School of Critical Studies. She has received awards and fellowships from The NewYork Foundation for the Arts, The Prince Claus Fund, Processing Foundation, and Goethe Institut amongst others.

Naima Hassan

Naima Hassan background lies in the development of archive collections, curatorial strategies and international cultural partnerships. She currently leads Re:assemblages, jointly developed with Guest Artists Space Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation, as Associate Curator and Archivist. In 2022, she founded SITAAD, a platform dedicated to supporting archival research on Somalia and its diaspora. Hassan also serves on the Steering Board of TheMuseumsLab and is a member of New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures Working Group. She has presented works at the Tate, University of Oxford, Africa Centre NYC, Afterall, The Recovery Plan Florence, Open Resource Centre and beyond.

Joey Aresoa

Joey Aresoa is a multidisciplinary artist based in Madagascar whose work explores the power of personal and collective narratives. She investigates the persistence and erasure of stories that shape our identities, with a particular focus on memory and oral transmission. 

Her creative approach is rooted in reactivating myths and legends, crafting everyday heroines to strengthen their representation in response to dominant narratives. Joey’s practice spans visual arts, poetry, and performance, often creating immersive and sensory installations that invite audiences to engage deeply with the themes of identity and history. 

In her figurative work, she addresses iconographies inherited from colonization, creating a dialogue between past and present while questioning the meanings imposed by colonial history. This approach underscores the importance of revisiting and reinventing visual narratives as a way to reclaim and reimagine our image. 

Hon. Aisha Adamu Augie

Hon. Aisha Adamu Augie is a celebrated Creative Artist & Communications Strategist who currently serves as the Director-General of the Centre for Black and African Arts & Civilisation (CBAAC), a Pan-African agency domiciled atthe Ministry of Arts, Culture & Creative Economy. The agency focuses on the values set by FESTAC77 to promote unity, peace and progress by preserving, propagating and promoting African Arts, History and Civilization.

Augie is multifaceted, with relevant experience as an entrepreneur and worked in multiple industries within the private sector before delving into public service. She is a bridge builder between these sectors, engaging in Policy Advisory and development initiatives to support youth & women empowerment across Africa.

Prior to her appointment, she served as Special Adviser to the Nigerian Minister of Finance, Budget & National Planning on Digital Communications Strategy. She was also Senior Special Assistant on New Media to the Governor of Kebbi State, where she coordinated state/nationwide publicity and reputation management.

Augie is also the founder of The Centre For Art & Creative Talent (C-FACT), a non-profit organization working to bridge the gaps at the intersection of Talent, Financing & Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria since 2012.

Dr Jago Cooper

Dr Jago Cooper is Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Professor of Art and Archaeology at UEA. For more than twenty years Jago has worked for and with museums, cultural ministries, technology companies, and heritage organizations around the world to explore and communicate aspects of the great human story. His research has ranged broadly across universal questions facing global society including climate change, technological revolution, colonial encounters and social innovation.

In addition to his academic publications and papers, Jago has always worked hard to engage a broader public audience with his research interests creating exhibitions, digital platforms and broadcast media including writing and presenting more than a dozen documentaries for the BBC.

After a decade working for the British Museum as the Head of the Americas, Jago joined the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA in 2021.

Quinsy Gario

Quinsy Gario is a performance poet and artist from Curaçao and St. Maarten interested in decolonial remembering and instituting otherwise. His work Zwarte Piet Is Racisme (2011–2012) ushered in the second anti-racism wave in the Netherlands. Through successive collaborative works in the Baltics from 2020 until 2024 he has contributed to conversations in the region on its role in the pan-European colonial project.

He has an academic background in media studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies and is a graduate of the Master Artistic Research program at the Royal Academy of Art the Hague. He received the Royal Academy Master Thesis Prize 2017, the Black Excellence Award 2016, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival Silver Award 2015, the Dutch Caribbean Pearls Community Pearl Award 2014, the Kerwin Award 2014 and the Hollandse Nieuwe 12 Theater makers Prize 2011. From 2012 until 2018 he was a recurring participant of the Black Europe Body Politics conference series. In 2017 he received a Humanity in Action Detroit Fellowship and in 2017/2018 he was a BAK Fellow.

Gario is a member of Family Connection which was co-founded by his mother Glenda Martinus. In 2021 the collective’s work was collected for the Dutch National Art Collection. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researching Dutch Afro-Caribbean art, museum collections and refusal.

Amal Alhaag

Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based curator, researcher and co-initiator/facilitator of several initiatives, including Metro54, a platform for experimental sonic, dialogic and visual culture and the Side Room (2013-2016), a room for eccentric practice and people together with dear friend and artist Maria Guggenbichler. She develops ongoing experimental and collaborative research practice, public programs and projects on global spatial politics, archives, colonialism, counterculture, oral histories and popular culture.

Her projects and collaborations with people, collectives, initiatives and institutions invite, stage, question and play with ‘uncomfortable’ issues that riddle, rewrite, remix, share and compose narratives in impermanent settings. Amal is currently part of the curatorial team of the quadrennial sonsbeek20→24 in Arnhem, Netherlands; senior research & public programmer at the Research Center for Material Culture, Netherlands and curatorial and research fellow at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.

Osahon H. Okunbo

Osahon H. Okunbo is an entrepreneur, investor, and cultural patron with interests in infrastructure, technology, and the creative economy. He is the founder of Vetrinox Capital, an investment firm that supports projects across these sectors. He also established Live! Lounge, Lagos’ first dedicated comedy and live performance club, and serves as Chairman of The Wells Carlton Hotel & Apartments in Abuja, a hospitality business known for its blend of comfort and ambition.

Osahon’s focus extends beyond business leadership to creating platforms that support growth and opportunity. Through The Osahon Okunbo Foundation (TOOF), he provides mentorship, funding, and resources for emerging artists, designers, and cultural practitioners. The foundation has supported art fairs, training programs, and collaborations aimed at strengthening Africa’s creative industries. His career reflects a consistent interest in building sustainable ventures while advancing cultural development, combining strategic investment with initiatives that expand access and create long-term value.

Selene Wendt

Selene Wendt is an independent curator, writer and researcher whose ongoing curatorial focus is on decoloniality and socially engaged art practices, with emphasis on interdisciplinary projects situated at the intersection between contemporary art, music, and literature.

She has curated exhibitions throughout the world and works regularly with prominent art institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroí, Brazil; The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, and El Museo de Arte del Banco de la Républica, Bogota, Colombia, and the Havana Biennial, among others. She writes regularly for art publications and journals such as NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke University Press) and has written and edited numerous books and exhibition catalogues. Her book Beyond the Door of No Return, featuring contemporary artists whose works convey narratives of resistance against colonial rule, was co-published in 2021 by The Africa Institute and Skira.

In 2022 she was appointed curator for Vanderbilt University's Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice two-year program Artistic Activism and the Power of Collective Resistance (2022-2023). For more detailed information about her work please see the website: https://theglobalartproject.no

Azu Nwagbogu

Azu Nwagbogu is an internationally acclaimed curator, interested in evolving new models of engagement with questions of decolonization, restitution, and repatriation. In his practice, the exhibition becomes an experimental site for reflection, civic engagement, ecology and repatriation – both tangible and symbolic. Nwagbogu is the Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a non- profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria. He also serves as Founder and Director of LagosPhoto Festival, an annual international arts festival of photography held in Lagos. He is the publisher of Art Base Africa, a virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas.

In 2021, Nwagbogu was awarded “Curator of Year 2021” by the Royal Photographic Society, UK, and also listed amongst the hundred most influential people in the art world by ArtReview. In 2021, Nwagbogu launched the project “Dig Where You Stand (DWYS) - From Coast to Coast” which offers a new model for institutional building and engagement, with questions of decolonization, restitution and repatriation, the exhibition took place in Ibrahim’s Mahama’s culture hub SCCA in Tamale, Ghana.

Most recently in 2023, Nwagbogu was appointed “Explorer at Large” by National Geographic Society to serve as an ambassador for the Organization and receive support to continue his storytelling work across Africa and globally, a title bestowed on a select few global change makers. Nwagbogu’s primary interest is in reinventing the idea of the museum and its role as a civic space for engagement for society at large. 

Kayode Adegbola

Kayode Adegbola is a Lagos-based lawyer and cultural entrepreneur. He is the founder of Adegbola Art Projects, a curatorial and advisory platform focused on Nigerian and African art across modern, contemporary, and traditional practices. His forthcoming Adegbola Gallery, opening in October 2025 with Heroes Past, will present an exhibition re-examining Nigerian independence through art and cultural history.

Through initiatives ranging from large-scale corporate commissions and public art installations to collector-focused programmes, Adegbola is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of Nigeria’s art ecosystem. 

His practice foregrounds the role of collectors and cultural institutions in shaping access, scholarship, and visibility for Nigerian and African art within global discourse.

Dr Amanda Maples

Amanda Maples is Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has taught university courses in African arts and served in curatorial and scholarly capacities at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, the High Desert Museum, and UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Maples has served as the Dialogues editor for the journal African Arts since 2020, and has curated a range of exhibitions on historical and contemporary African arts. Her scholarship explores urban and contemporary masquerade, decoloniality, jewelry and self-fashioning, museum policies, collecting practices, and restitutions. Maples holds a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sylvia Arthur

Sylvia Arthur is a storyteller, National Geographic Explorer, and creator of A Women’s Oral History of West Africa, a project that documents the lives of West African women over 60 and presents an alternative postcolonial history of the region from the perspective of its women through the creation of an extensive oral archive. She is the founder of the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD), a library, archive, writing residency, and research institute in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day. She is a 2024 Ford Global Fellow and the 2023 Brittle Paper Literary Person of the Year.

Michelle Jacques

Michelle Jacques is a curator whose work bridges art history and contemporary practice through critical engagements with race, feminism, and modernism. Currently the Director of Exhibitions & Collections/Chief Curator at Remai Modern, Saskatoon, she has previously held curatorial positions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1995–2002; 2004–12), served as Director of Programming at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax (2002–04), and was Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2012–21).

Her recent projects include Dawit L. Petros: At the Edge of the Horizon I (Remai Modern, 2025); Land.Sea.Sugar.Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean (co-curated with Sally Frater, Remai Modern, 2025); and Denyse Thomasos: just beyond (co-curated with Renée van der Avoird and Sally Frater, AGO/Remai Modern, 2022–23, traveling). Recent recognition includes a Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence (2022) and a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2024).

Samba Yonga

Samba Yonga is an award-winning journalist, cultural curator, and transnational communications expert based in Lusaka, Zambia. Her interdisciplinary practice spans decolonial research, cultural heritage preservation, strategic communication, and feminist historiography. She is the co-founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia (WHMZ) and founder of Ku-Atenga Media, a firm specialising in communications design for African contexts.

Her work interrogates knowledge asymmetries inherited from the colonial archive and activates museum collections, oral histories, and community knowledge to foreground African epistemologies—particularly those shaped by women and source communities. Her curatorial and research-led projects aim to reshape narratives, reframe institutional practice, and advance more equitable forms of global cultural cooperation.

Ann Marie Peña

Ann Marie Peña is a curator, cultural producer and policy advisor with a particular focus on social justice and community engaged artistic practices. She was Chair of the Curatorial Programme and a Founding Trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, and is currently Curator of Special Projects (at large) for the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Formerly Director of Frith Street Gallery, London, and Lecturer in Visual Studies at University of the Arts London, she initiated the Artist-in-Residence programme at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada in 2011. 

From 2019–24 Ann Marie was Strategic Head of Culture and Heritage for Barking and Dagenham Council in the East End of London where she led on key projects including the development of the Women's Museum and A House for Artists. 

Ann Marie is a Doctoral Researcher at Tate Gallery in the UK, where her work focuses on the development of innovative co-custodianship models for public collections. 

Bimpe Nkontchou

Mrs. Bimpe Nkontchou is a lawyer and wealth adviser, with over 35 years' experience in (Nigeria and the U.K) with an established multi-family office (based in London), which is focused on African entrepreneurs and their families.  She is ranked by Spears500 Directory as a ‘Top Family Office Service’ in the UK. 

Bimpe is a keen enthusiast and ‘activist collector’ of African art.  She views African art as an important legacy of the African continent, as well as being a valuable asset class.  She contributes regularly to conversations and formal discourse on promoting and developing the creative industries on the continent and has advised corporates, families and established artists in different models of philanthropy and methods of measuring the impact and the implementation of the support received from donors.  

Bimpe is a trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation and G.A.S. Foundation (both founded by the celebrated Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare CBE), with the objective to build and support an artists’ residency in Lagos, Nigeria for artists of African heritage.  She is also a founding member of the African Art Acquisitions Committee of les Amis du Centre Pompidou (in Paris, France).  She is an advisor to the James Barnor Foundation (and jurist of the foundation’s annual prize), as well as being adviser and board member of Fondation MAM (in Cameroon) and also supports the Whitechapel Gallery in London as a Director’s Patron. 

Bimpe has been invited as panelist and speaker at events such as The Art Business Conference, the Museum of Photography of St Louis, Senegal (MUPHOS) and has been interviewed on the renowned Art Tactic podcast, as well as contributing an article in the TEFAF Journal (May 2020), exploring the different models of philanthropy in the arts. 

Dr Oluwatoyin Zainab Sogbesan

Dr Oluwatoyin Zainab Sogbesan is an architect, cultural historian, and art and heritage specialist. She is the founder and director of Àsà Heritage Africa Foundation, a non-governmental organisation focused on heritage identification, documentation, and preservation. Oluwatoyin holds a Doctorate in Culture, Policy and Management from City University London and an MA in Arts and Heritage Management from London Metropolitan University. She is a member of numerous international and national professional organisations, including the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), and the Art Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), as well as being part of the Architecture and Urbanism Research Hub. She holds numerous fellowships, including her role as an African Museology fellow at the Smithsonian Institute. 

With over two decades of experience spanning the built environment, art, and the heritage sector, she interrogates culture and identity from a broader perspective. She is particularly dedicated to identifying, documenting, restoring, and preserving heritage sites, buildings, and cultures. Oluwatoyin serves as a consultant for the European Union Institute for Culture (EUNIC-Nigeria Cluster) on museums. She emphasises the proper understanding of intangible cultures and how they inform tangible cultural heritage from the African perspective. Her focus lies in making interpretations inclusive and democratic through various platforms that encourage interactivity and participation. 

Oluwatoyin has served as a jury member for many national and international initiatives, including OpenWalls Arles in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, France, organised by the British Journal of Photography, Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, and the 'Connecting the Dots’ project by The Goethe-Institut Nigeria in partnership with The Ford Foundation. She was a guest curator for the LagosPhoto Festival 2020 initiative ‘Home Museum” and a visiting lecturer at Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ohio. Previously, she was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo. 

Missla Libsekal 

Missla Libsekal (b. Addis Abeba, Ethiopia) is an independent curator and writer whose practice deals with alterity and knowledge transmission. Her long-term interdisciplinary research focuses on historically marginalised ways of knowing, with the current chapter considering what stories of living in the land can offer better ways of being in relation with the places that we inhabit and occupy? Since 2023, Libsekal has curated exhibitions and talks for the annual ART X Lagos platform. She is based in Vancouver, Canada in the unceded, ancestral territories of  the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Adjoa Armah

Adjoa Armah is an artist, educator, and writer. Her practice meditates on memory and thelayered realities we carry within our bodies. Drawing on personal and collective histories,she navigates the intersections of grief, cultural memory, and resilience,particularly as theyemerge within diasporic and post-colonial contexts. She is the founder of saman archive, agathering of photographic negatives encountered across Ghana.Armah’s work has been presented internationally, including at Auto Italia, SwissInstitute,fluent, Hauser & Wirth, Delfina Foundation, Espace Niemeyer, and Salone De Mobile.Armah is also currently a practice-led DPhil researcher in Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art atthe University of Oxford.

Through her doctoral research, she engages with concepts ofunstable ground, considering sand, soil, sea, and various mutable landscapes as metaphorsfor identity: shifting, porous and constantly reshaped by external factors.

Moni Aisida

Moni Aisida is the Executive Director at Guest Artists Foundation. In addition to a background in Fintech and Health, Moni has over 8 years of experience in the arts industry, including at SMO Contemporary, Art X Lagos, and most recently, Affinity Gallery.

She is best known for her work with bringing to the fore, emerging art practices, and institutions.