One Art Gallery Opens Reflection: A Multimedia Showcase Bringing Together Seven Voices in Contemporary Nigerian Art

A new group exhibition opens in Lagos, presenting a bold convergence of artistic perspectives across multimedia practice.

Reflection, a multimedia exhibition comprising seven of Nigeria’s most intriguing emerging and mid-career artists, opens at One Art Gallery in Lagos. The show will run for two weeks, from July 4 to July 17, 2026.

The exhibition, which debuted on July 4 at 2/5 Idowu Ajao Street, Ajao Estate, Anthony Village, Lagos, is expected to be one of the gallery’s most significant group exhibitions to date.

The term “Reflection” carries considerable weight. It invites both the artist and the audience to pause and look again, exploring what lies beneath the surface of a picture, an object, or a moment. As a multimedia showcase, the exhibition embraces that proposition by bringing together practitioners from a variety of media and disciplines, each contributing a distinct visual language to a shared conversation about identity, perception, memory, and the world as seen and reimagined through the artistic lens.

One Art Gallery has established itself as one of Lagos’ most important spaces for contemporary Nigerian art, presenting thoughtful and intellectually engaging work by artists whose practices are rooted in cultural inquiry and visual innovation. Its programming consistently supports artists who are expanding the boundaries of contemporary Nigerian art, and Reflection is no exception.

Located in the heart of Anthony Village, the gallery’s Ajao Estate venue has become an accessible, community-rooted cultural destination, attracting both seasoned art enthusiasts and first-time visitors.

Reflection brings together seven exhibiting artists: Hycenth David, Wisdom Madunacho, Darlington Raymond, Moses Oyeleye, Samuel Joseph, Christopher Ohia, and Oluwapelumi Fagbemi. Across their collective practices, the exhibition spans painting, photography, digital art, and mixed media, creating a truly multimedia programme that offers visitors multiple entry points into the exhibition’s central themes.

Among the exhibiting artists, Madunacho Onyedikachi Wisdom brings a practice of particular depth and international recognition to the Lagos stage. A Nigerian artist currently based in the United Kingdom, Madunacho works primarily in fine art photography, using the medium not simply to document but to excavate—to recover memory, preserve cultural heritage, and explore the quiet yet enduring ways identity is carried across time and geography.

His work is deeply rooted in his Igbo upbringing. His photographic series—including Ụmụ Ada, Njirimara, Nkwụ (Palm Tree), and Ije (Journey)—approach their subjects with remarkable stillness and compositional precision, transforming photographs into works that function as portraiture, testimony, and cultural archive.

Through careful attention to people, objects, and landscapes, he explores themes of migration, belonging, and cultural continuity, questioning what it means to carry one’s heritage across borders into places where it may not always be recognised or understood.

His contribution to Reflection is especially fitting given the exhibition’s title. Photography is, in many ways, an act of reflection—capturing a surface exposed to the world while revealing not only what is seen but also what the photographer chooses to see. In Madunacho’s hands, that reflective surface becomes a repository of cultural memory where the traditions of his Igbo childhood are preserved, honoured, and made visible.

Reflection is the kind of exhibition that rewards patience and close attention. With seven artists working across multiple disciplines and media, it offers a breadth of perspective that a solo exhibition cannot provide. It becomes an ongoing dialogue between different ways of seeing, creating, and understanding what it means to be an artist in contemporary Nigeria.

For the next two weeks, One Art Gallery provides the space for that dialogue to unfold. The exhibition invites Lagos’ arts community—and anyone who encounters it—to pause, observe, and reflect.

Reflection runs from July 4 to July 17, 2026, at One Art Gallery, 2/5 Idowu Ajao Street, Ajao Estate, Anthony Village, Lagos.

For further information, visit:
www.oneartgallery.org