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From Nigeria, the exhibition extends to Bamako and the USA to translate the part of nature, the social and environmental upheavals of the cultural space of each of the artists presented. The diversity of materials and techniques used illuminates the different historical and geographical contexts, with the need to define in their works, the present and the future. Wole Lagunju reinterprets in Ona style the floral and vegetal motifs of traditional Yoruba textiles, in immersive compositions. In a long process, Ibrahim Ballo embroides with cotton threads on canvas evoking Malian textile, bogolan, …