"Fragments of Our Existence" Brings Four Artists Together at Alexis Galleries

Fragments of Our Existence, a group exhibition, brings together Ebuka Anyiam, Celesta Jonah, Idris Olabode Opeyemi and Okediji Femi at Alexis Galleries in Lagos, Nigeria, this September. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 19, 2026, and runs until October 3 at Alexis Galleries, 282 Akin Olugbade Street, off Idowu Martins, Victoria Island. 

Chris Tembele Turns a Vacant Lot into an Altar of Ashes

By Udemma Chukwuma 

Chris Tembele enters already transformed, his body wrapped and his face entirely obscured beneath a fan of palm fronds. In a costume that reads less like disguise and more like abdication, he empties himself of his own individual identity so that he can become an officiant, a vessel through whom grief for absent parents can move rather than a performer grieving on their behalf. 

Christopher Ankeli Dissolves Lagos Into Water

By Udemma Chukwuma

Christopher Ankeli's watercolours are built around a contradiction. He paints recognisable places, streets, buildings, vehicles, pedestrians, electric poles, markets, yet he continually prevents them from becoming fully fixed. Buildings dissolve into washes. Roads become pools of pigment. Cars lose their hard edges. People appear less like individual portraits than passing presences. The more familiar the scene, the more elusive it becomes.

This is particularly striking in his treatment of Lagos, one of Nigeria's most visually overwhelming cities. Its streets are crowded with vehicles, traders, buildings, signs and competing movements, yet Ankeli repeatedly quietens that chaos, translating noise into atmosphere. Traffic becomes rhythm. Crowds become silhouettes. Roads become reflections. Rain becomes a visual language.

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One Painting, One Word, Endless Debate, Inside Bramix's Feminism

By Udemma Chukwuma

Art is often at its most powerful when it asks difficult questions rather than offering comfortable answers. In Feminism (2026), Bayelsa-based artist Wilcox Bralatei Zacchaeus, popularly known as Bramix, presents a visually striking painting that explores how gender equality, cultural identity, and womanhood are being renegotiated in contemporary African society.

The painting draws on personal experience. Bramix says Feminism was shaped by a past relationship and by patterns he’s observed in others. “This painting was inspired by my ex-partner and my observations of other people's relationships,” he says.