Best of Art 2025

Best of Art 2025 4. Alexis Galleries at ART X Lagos 2025

For decades, African art occupied a provisional space in global institutions—collected but rarely centered, exhibited but seldom historicized on its own

The Quiet Power of Yagazie Emezi’s New Visual Language

The Quiet Power of Yagazie Emezi’s New Visual Language IMG 9926

Yagazie Emezi has never fit into one frame. A decade ago, she emerged as one of Nigeria’s most vital photojournalists. Today, her work moves between lens and loom, documenting African realities while threading ancestral narratives into textile art. Political yet intimate, her practice resists binaries of past and present, seen and unseen, reportage and ritual. […]