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Rele Gallery, Lagos is pleased to present Face-Me-I-Face-You, the second solo exhibition and first in Lagos of Lagos-based artist David Otaru. The exhibition draws from the artist’s personal experiences growing up in a ‘Face Me, I Face You’ apartment — a residential building arrangement common in low-income areas in Nigeria, where a group of one or two-room apartments have their entrances facing each other along a walkway. Here, Otaru references familiar settings and objects in reconstructing distinct memories. For the artist, these moments form a point of inquiry into a distant, yet pivotal …