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Restoring the transformative power of art. UMUTI:MA is a nomadic gallery celebrating + promoting African contemporary art in Dublin and beyond.

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Our Black History Month season with @umuti__ma continues with COTTON QUEEN, now featuring an introduction from actor, Rodney Sharkey..

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📆 Sun 18th | 15.30

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonisers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch.

But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa becomes the centre of a power play to determine the future of the village.

Awakening to her own strength, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields – and herself. by @umuti__ma

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💼 "Intricate Nollywood drama takes on corruption in Lagos" - The Guardian

@umuti__ma and IFI Black History Month season presents... OVER THE BRIDGE

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📆 Wed 21st | 18.20

When a major government infrastructure project goes disastrously wrong, successful investment banker Folarin Marinho disappears from his privileged Lagos life. Finding himself in a remote fishing village, he begins to confront the pressures, compromises and personal losses that brought him there. Tolu Ajayi's compelling psychological drama explores mental health, corporate corruption and the possibility of redemption through unexpected human connections. by @umuti__ma

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@umuti__ma and IFI Black History Month season presents... OVER THE BRIDGE

🎟️ Book Now
📆 Wed 21st | 18.20

When a major government infrastructure project goes disastrously wrong, successful investment banker Folarin Marinho disappears from his privileged Lagos life. Finding himself in a remote fishing village, he begins to confront the pressures, compromises and personal losses that brought him there. Tolu Ajayi’s compelling psychological drama explores mental health, corporate corruption and the possibility of redemption through unexpected human connections. by @umuti__ma

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for Borders & Other Myths, featuring works by Cortney Herron, Chigozie Obi, Carine Mansan, Hamed Maiye, Myles Igwebuike, and Ernest Amabibi.

As the exhibition officially comes to a close, a special thank you to all who visited the gallery, shared their reflections, and engaged with the works both in person and online. Your continued support means a great deal to us.

We look forward to welcoming you back to the Gallery soon for more exhibitions and conversations.

For further enquiries, please contact manager@galleryaffinity.com. by @umuti__ma

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5 days ago

#ThrowbackThursday to our artist talk during the opening weekend of the Borders & Other Myths.

With only a few days left before the exhibition closes, there’s still time to experience the show. Come by, and bring a friend along for another look. We’d love to welcome you back. by @umuti__ma

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9 days ago

Laura Twagirayezu shares her thoughts on being Rwandan, remote curation, Africa’s post-colonial realities, and curating Borders and Other Myths at Affinity Gallery.

“I’m very fascinated by how people, how individuals, perceive the world around them! It’s a very internal dimension, as you’ve put it, and this is a personal and intimate part of people that I want to speak to. This curatorial note for me is an invitation to think a little bit more and a little deeper about one’s internal world, one’s personal beliefs, collective beliefs and everything in between – hence the ‘Myths’ in the title of the exhibition.”

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#nchetamagazine

Sculpture by @mylesigwe

Photography by @ernest.yankee

Fine art by @carine_mansan

Left: Carine Mansan
Right: @cortneyherron

Left: Hamed Maiye
Right: Ernest Amabibi

Exhibition flyer taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @umuti__ma

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We spoke with Laura Twagirayezu, Lead Curator of @umuti__ma to find out more about our Black History Month season in partnership with UMUTI:MA.

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📆 Oct 5th - 28th by @umuti__ma

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Borders & Other Myths still showing at @galleryaffinity till Oct 10th.

The group exhibition features 6 artists @cortneyherron @mansan_artstudio @chigozieobi_ @ernest.yankee @mai_ye @mylesigwe

Curated by Laura Twagirayezu, the exhibition was inspired by the curator’s reflections on traveling within the African continent as an African person. This lead to the idea of borders as non-eternal, mental, psychological, and physical lines that we all navigate differently. The juxtaposition with myth is intended to reasses borders, but to also explore folklores, personal histories, self-authorship and more.

📍Lagos, Affinity Gallery
🗓️Sept 13th - Oct 10th

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#umutima #affinitygallery #lagosnigeria #contemporaryart taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @umuti__ma

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Borders & Other Myths

Currently on View / Lagos, Nigeria

Affinity Gallery presents Borders & Other Myths, a group exhibition curated by Laura Twagirayezu, bringing together the practices of six artists: @mansan_artstudio @chigozieobi_, @cortneyherron, @ernest.yankee, @mai_ye, and @mylesigwe.

The exhibition considers borders not only as physical or geographical divisions, but also as ideas that shape how we understand identity, belonging, difference, and connection.

Across their practices, the artists question what appears fixed or singular. The works suggest that identities can contain multiple experiences, while boundaries that seem to separate people can also reveal the connections between them.

The exhibition also asks us to think about who creates the boundaries we inherit, whose stories become attached to them, and what other histories may exist beyond them.

Borders & Other Myths treats the border as something that can be questioned rather than accepted as the end of a story.

Curated by: Laura Twagirayezu (@umuti_ma )

Venue: Affinity Gallery, 1 to 7 Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos

On view until: 10 October 2026

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm

‼️Disclaimer‼️: No copyright infringement. All rights and credits are reserved for the rightful owner (s).
Photo Credit : @umuti__ma

#kyekyekuleafrica #artexhibition #artwork #africanart #art by @umuti__ma

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14 days ago

BLACK HISTORY MONTH at the IFI begins!

MOTHERS OF CHIBOK follows four Nigerian women rebuilding their lives after the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings - courage that endures long after the headlines faded.

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📆 Mon Oct 5th | 18.30

This October, the IFI in collaboration with @UMUTI__MA presents Black History Month - a season of African cinema exploring resilience, integrity, and the cost of silence. by @umuti__ma

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This October, the IFI in collaboration with @umuti__ma presents Black History Month - a season of African cinema exploring resilience, integrity, and the cost of silence.

🎟️ Book Now
📆 Oct 5th - Oct 28th

Mothers of Chibok follows four Nigerian women rebuilding their lives after the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings - courage that endures long after the headlines faded.

Over the Bridge, Tolu Ajayi's feature debut, turns to corporate Nigeria, tracing how pressure for illegal kickbacks corrodes personal integrity.

In Cotton Queen, teenage Nafisa, raised on tales of her grandmother's battles against colonisers, must find her own strength when a businessman's development scheme threatens her Sudanese village's cotton fields - and its future.

Kikuyu Land follows a Kenyan journalist uncovering a legal battle over stolen ancestral tea land, exposing a legacy of colonial theft and ongoing abuse that refuses to stay buried.

Join us this October, as these four stories ask how people hold on to themselves amidst tragedy, corporate ambition, and the weight of post-colonial legacies. by @umuti__ma

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Join us tomorrow at the @irishfilminstitute for the screening of “Once upon a time in Harlem” as part of the documentary week

A cinematic time capsule, built around the late filmmaker William Greaves’s extraordinary footage of a 1972 gathering of surviving Harlem Renaissance luminaries at Duke Ellington’s townhouse.

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📆 Fri 25th | 20:45
📍 Irish Film Institute

Completed by Greave’s son David (who was one of four cameramen on the original shoot), and granddaughter Liani, this illuminating documentary preserves an invaluable conversation on Black creativity, culture, memory and artistic legacy across generations.
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#jazz #dublin #documentary #music #harlem by @umuti__ma

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