An Open Studio and Presentation of Residency Research by Yoma Emore
Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on 5th June 2026 for The Archive is Only the First Sentence, an open studio and presentation of residency research by Yoma Emore. Beginning with an introduction to the narrative and archival frameworks that shape her practice, Yoma will move through earlier works and current residency research surrounding The Prince Who Never Was, an ongoing project exploring lineage and the Lusophone–Warri relationship in the early sixteenth century. The presentation will explore speculative mapping, storytelling, family archives, and the relationship between fiction and historical memory.
The evening will conclude with an open studio, where guests are invited to move through the space, engage with residency materials including process notes, textile experiments, and research fragments, and join an informal conversation around the research and ideas developed during the residency.
Event Details
Date: 5th June, 2026
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 9b, Hakeem Dickson Drive, off T.F. Kuboye Road, Oniru, Lagos
This event is free to attend, however it is mandatory to RSVP to secure your spot.
About Yoma Emore
Yoma Emore (b. 1997, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores personal and collective memory, lineage, and material history through research-led textile and material experimentation. With a background in fine art and visual studies, Emore engages with personal and collective histories, often centering familial archives as a means of interrogating the residues of displacement and transnational connection, and using processes such as embroidery, hand-felting, printmaking, and the reworking of waste materials. Across different bodies of work, Emore treats material as a site of continuity and transformation, allowing past narratives to resurface and shift through making. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including recent presentations in Los Angeles, Miami, and Lagos, where she continues to develop bodies of work that blur the boundaries between art, documentation, and speculative geography.
Photo of Yoma Emore. Photo: Jeffrey Okwodu.
Yoma's residency is generously supported by Deutsche Bank.