Lagos Book Art Festival 2026
Immerse yourself in seven days of relentless creativity, vibrant discourse, and cultural celebration as the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) returns for its landmark 28th edition. Organized by the
$9000 (USD)
My Emotion is an evocative, sensual portrait that explores vulnerability, yearning, and raw emotional presence. Dominated by a dramatic crimson and striped ochre background, an alluring, full-figured woman clad in a vibrant scarlet two-piece rests her head against her hand in deep, pensive reflection. Her rounded anatomical forms, rich golden-amber skin tones, and expressive gaze capture the weight and complexity of heartfelt sentiment. The artist uses a warm, high-chroma palette to visually translate passion and tender vulnerability, presenting a celebration of body positivity, emotional honesty, and self-acceptance.
$10000.00 (USD)
Family is an intimate, sacred visual allegory of protective love, partnership, and generative continuity. A couple is depicted in a close, circular embrace: a bearded man in a red cap wraps his arms securely around his partner, whose curved silhouette forms the nurturing core of the composition. Every passage of skin, garment, and negative space is meticulously paved with thousands of multi-colored granular glass seed beads and mineral tesserae, producing an incandescent mosaic that scintillates with shifting light. The interlocking circular forms mirror the unbreakable bond of matrimonial unity, evoking traditional Yoruba ancestral beadwork while asserting a progressive, modernist design aesthetic.