Overview
- Legendary Lagos: City of Dreams concluded as the city’s first street art festival, with 12 artists transforming pollution-blackened walls into large public murals.
- Nine participants have Nigerian roots and three are international, reflecting a push to democratize art beyond galleries, according to co-organizer Osa Seven.
- Artists and organizers frame public art as social expression that builds awareness and local pride, a view echoed by Lagos muralist Ernest Ibe.
- Parallel programming features an expansive Fela Kuti exhibition making its African debut, with 440 items and an expanded format that a curator says is three times larger than the original French version.
- The festival follows Lagos’s Art X fair and aligns with a growing regional arts circuit that includes Senegal’s Dakar Biennale.