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Three things come to mind when contemplating the title ‘Hyperflux’, of Williams Chechet’s solo exhibition at Retro Africa in Abuja. First, it is an apt description of the fast-rising contemporary artist’s rapidly evolving practice—his creative process largely spontaneous and involving the isolation of photographs on a coloured and flattened plane. Second, his constant oscillation from the past to the present through a depiction of traditional leaders and personages, as well as an appropriation of indigenous aesthetics and iconography mostly from northern Nigeria—pivotal to the shaping of the …