HOW FAR NIGERIA?

How Far Nigeria? was an immersive sensorial exhibition shaped by nine months of lived experience between Abuja and parts of northern Nigeria. Structured as a series of personal field notes and visual memoirs, the work traced encounters with systems, traditional practices, and everyday cultural markers - translated through drawing, sound, video, food, and collected objects.

A SENSORIAL NARRATIVE OF PLACE | ABUJA . FEB 2026

The exhibition was first presented in Abuja as a self-curated, immersive pilot exhibition at the artists home. This initial experience was intentionally conceived as an intimate gathering- a space to test the multisensory structure of the work while inviting insider perspective.

The scale fostered proximity and conversation; visitors moved through the space as one might move through memory- pausing, listening, tasting, questioning.

The exhibition invited audiences to reflect not only on the artist’s perspective, but also on their own inherited perceptions, proximities, and digressions from Nigerian culture, tradition and everyday practice.

Dialogic by design, curated conversations on ‘culture & empathy’ and audience response through interviews formed the second layer of the narrative. In this moment, the exhibition shifted from memoir to shared narrative. The viewer became a participant. The work became cumulative.

The exhibition experience

What next?

I’m exploring where this work can go next: from illustrated books, new exhibitions, and immersive experiences rooted in the Nigerian experience. A residency opportunity is also something i'm looking out for to grow the work in fresh contexts and communities.

If any of this resonates — whether as a collaboration, a conversation, or an opportunity I haven’t imagined yet — I’d love to hear from you.

Let’s create together.
Write to me at noon.rain@gmail.com