Alliance Francais, Heritage Bank, Others Host Exposition
Alliance Francais, the French language and culture organisation, Heritage Bank, a leading financial institution, and TravelStart, Africa’s top-rated online travel agency, recently partnered with Beige and Crow to host a single experience of spoken word, music and visual arts at the Exposition Experience event held recently in Lagos. The event was curated by a spoken word poet, REZthaPoet and a visual artist, Sylvester Aguddah. Beige and Crow is an experiential art and culture management firm based in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Exposition Experience event was inspired by REZthaPoet’s Exposit album which explores the relatable experiences of love, greed, comradeship, disharmony using folklore, music, modern imageries, and a hybrid of languages.
ReZthaPoet, as he is fondly called, is involved in different cultural and artistic shifts using the spoken word poetry to engage and entertain a growing elite and displaced middle class.
The event opened with the exhibition of the works of Slyvester Aguddah, a profound visual artist whose works are impressionistic on the surface but filled with narratives at the background. Aguddah is a full -time visual artist whose works had been exhibited in Germany, Turkey, the United Kingdom and at home. The collage technique in the Exposit works of Aguddah has the ample realism of the cinematic and the metaphorical as both sound and words are felt without seeing them.
Speaking on the connection between both artists, Adebola, who is better known as Retzthapoet explained that the connection between them comes in the body of works that thrives on the theme of culture and identity from different perspectives which he noted is further espoused by deployment of creative techniques, that deviates from norms and exploring contending narratives on cosmopolitan stereotypes until they meet late last year.
Both artistes had tested their versatility and experimental flair with audiences like DJ Jimmy Jatt,Elajoe, Illblis participating in the performance at the Renaissance Hotel in September 2017.