Memory Palace 

The annual LagosPhoto Festival presents it's twelfth edition themed "Memory Palace" which explores human relationships with memory and the generative potential of photography and images to spark visual intellect and restitute decaying and lost memories. This year, we have evolved the conversation from Home Museum to Memory Palace. Memory Palace brings that familial loci of heritage and history into a sharper focus and closer to home. The Memory Palace technique is a memorisation strategy, based on visualisation of familiar spatial environments to recall information. The technique involves recalling to memory a location or physical space that one is exceptionally comfortable or familiar with and in this location attempt to grasp at those visual clues and images that shape memory with an awareness of the fragility of recollection, its fragments and the radioactive decay associated with trying to grasp at memory. As we build our cosmology and familial safe spaces, we begin to restore, restitute, repair lost memories and archives that are stashed away in our individual and collective consciousness. LagosPhoto 21 – Memory Palace is experimental and performative in its dissemination with a clear attempt to remediate, restore and reimagine heritage and historiography as it relates to Africa and its diasporas. Through the Memory Palace, LagosPhoto delves deeper into the urgent burning and unresolved topic of restitution and the role of photography in remediating and accelerating the agency and hopes of repair whether through fantastical story telling pseudologia fantastica - characterized by the creation of eloquent and interesting stories, sometimes bordering on the fantastic; or grasping at faint memories interspersed with facts and critical fabulation (to borrow the term coined by Saidiya Hartman) 

Special Projects

Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama

"Give us This Day" Obayomi Anthony - Solo Exhibition  

Art of Portraiture Photography Workshop with IkéUdé  

LagosPhoto x Voice NFT experience 

Panel Discussions – End SARS Movement/Activism 

Art Performance: Hermes Chibueze Iyele 

Stills from Things Fall Apart - Outdoor Opening/Visit 

Film Screening: Things Fall Apart by Jason Pohland

Film Screening: White Cube by Renzo Martens. 

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