RESONANCE

Olorunfemi Adewuyi is an architectural designer and researcher based in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the founder of Omi Collective (2023), an antidisciplinary design and research group. Omi—meaning “water” in Yoruba, his mother tongue—reflects his sustained engagement with the politics and poetics of this resource.

His practice engages the centers, margins, and boundaries of architecture, urban design, design research, and object design, using scarcity and memory as sites for speculation and invention. Adewuyi is particularly attuned to latent and overlooked intelligences, reframing them to broaden the often resistive canons of modernity into a more inclusive whole.

He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Prince Claus Building Beyond Fellowship (2025), Institut Français Création Africa (2023), and the Goethe-Institut Support and Connect Grant (2023 & 2024).

His work—design, writing, and public speaking—has been widely exhibited and published internationally by and at important institutions such as Wallpaper, Triennale Milano / MDW, Stockholm Design Week / SFF, The Architectural Review, Disegno, Dezeen, Frame, and TEDx.

Anthony Ogochukwu Agbapuonwu is a curator, writer and strategy consultant. He is the founder of Art Bridge Project, a community-based visual arts organization working at the intersection of artistic exchange, creative knowledge production, and curated projects with a mandate to educate artists and stretch the breadth of their practice. Through his curatorial endeavors, he explores experiential and material poetics, with commentary on social, cultural, and political history as a way to amplify the transformative power of art and champion artists working with frontier techniques and new media. For over ten years, Tony has immersed himself in the Nigerian cultural landscape and worked at global art institutions such as ART X Lagos and Art Twenty One to present art fairs, exhibitions, workshops, live music sessions and dynamic creative projects. He currently serves as the Residency and Onsite Program Manager at Kòbọmọjẹ́ Artist Residency in Ibadan, which contributes to his passion for advancing diverse artistic practices and strengthening locally led cultural spaces in Nigeria.

Mobolaji Ogunrosoye is a self-taught visual artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She works at the intersection of photography and collage, using these mediums to explore multidimensionality and perception, particularly in images of Black and Nigerian women.

Over the past three years, her artistic journey has focused on two primary bodies of work: 'Portraits' and 'Contrasts In Loveliness.' Both projects involve manipulating found and captured images with selected materials to construct abstract collages.

Between 2021 and 2023, Ogunrosoye worked on the 'Portraits' series, which redefines the traditional form of a portrait. She later expanded on the series by replacing paper with Perspex for the group exhibition 'The Becoming' at Peres Projects, Berlin, in 2023. Here, she experimented with transparency as a tool for distortion, using materials of varying weight, thickness, and color to magnify and create illusions within her images. Building on this exploration, she further incorporated fragmentation and distortion by using Perspex in installation works for exhibitions such as 'Grow It, Show It' at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, and the Jaou Tunis Biennial in Tunis, Tunisia, both in 2024.

In 2024, Ogunrosoye participated in a research residency at the GAS Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.