‘Igi’bàdàn: Living with Trees in Ìbàdàn, An Exhibition between Arts and Science’ opens today, June 13, 2024, at our Institute’s Cornelius Adepegba Museum of African Art (CAMAA).
Dr Barbara Morovich, making her opening comments at the exhibition
This exhibition is the fruit of a collaboration between a French anthropologist, Emilie Guitard, two French visual artists, the Chevalme Sisters, and a Nigerian photographer, Anthony A. Obáyomí. Together, they spent hours around the trees of Ìbàdàn’s city centre, in south-western Nigeria, and in some of its most emblematic wooded areas, observing and capturing the daily interactions between city-dwellers and plants.
IAS-UI Director, Dr Molatokunbo Olutayo, declares ‘Igi’bàdàn’ open
‘Igi’bàdàn: Living with Trees in Ìbàdàn’ combines drawings, cyanotypes on textiles, night and documentary photographs, and excerpts from ethnographic field notebook to provide a sensible and affective account of the wealth of knowledge on and the diversity of forms of attachment to plants in a large and vibrant city in West Africa. At a time of global ecological crisis and rapid urban expansion, it offers an opportunity to reassess the importance of relationships with nature in the city, from Nigeria to the rest of the planet.
‘Igi’bàdàn’ runs till July 15, 2024 at CAMAA. A parallel exhibition is ongoing at Alliance Française, Lagos, from June 8 to July 15, 2024.
CAMAA guests at the opening ceremony