LAST WEEK 'You were, you are, and you always will be', Emma Prempeh’s debut solo exhibition. ⁠ • Until Saturday, October 22 2022⁠ ⁠ TIWANI CONTEMPORARY⁠ 13 Elsie Femi Pearse Street⁠ Victoria Island⁠ Lagos, Nigeria⁠ ⁠ Opening time:⁠ Tue - Sat: 10am - 6pm⁠ ⁠⁠ "You were, you are, and you always will be, is a recent body of works representing my exploration of interior spaces pictorially colliding with aspects of my personal history. My thoughts whilst making this series were to build an environment around these moments to physically weave around and between, to grasp moments of familiarity, expectation and nostalgia. My reflections are about how we exist within spaces of (in) tangible realities that are present and simultaenously experienced as metaphysical: spiritual, supernatural, or transcendental." Emma Prempeh⁠ ⁠ 'You were, you are, and you always will be', is held in a space poetically circumscribed by ode and elegy to family, and to friendships. The artists’ re-presentations of events extracted from family and personal photographs, are a commentary on the circularity and malleability of time and memory, and how these visual queries can prompt unexpected answers, interpretations, or evolve new questions that resurface as embodied, philosophical, or material embellishment in the experience of them.⁠ ⁠ About the artist:⁠ ⁠ @reclus__e lives and works in London. She is the inaugural Tiwani Contemporary artist in residence at @gasfoundation , Lagos. She studied at Goldsmiths University of London graduating in 2019 winning the Alumno/Space bursary award for 2020. She recently attended MA Painting at the Royal College of Art under the LeverHulme Trust Arts Scholarship winning the Valerie Beston Trust Arts award for 2022.⁠ ⁠ 📷 Installation views of Emma Prempeh: You were, you are, and you always will be, 10 September - 22 October 2022, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. #tiwanicontemporary #tiwanicontemporarylagos #gasfoundation #savethedate #lagosartscene #explorelagos #thingstodoinlagos #nigeria