A Evening Sharing Works In Progress By Current G.A.S. Residents Kush Badhwar, Okwei Odili, Oluwasemilore Delano, And Yoma Emore.
Join us on 30th May 2026 at G.A.S. Lagos for Underwater Ave, an evening bringing together works in progress by current G.A.S. residents Kush Badhwar, Okwei Odili, Oluwasemilore Delano, and Yoma Emore. As their residencies come to a close at the end of May, the artists share unfinished ideas, footage, fragments, prototypes, tests, and experiments developed during their time at G.A.S.
Moving between listening sessions, screenings, performances, sound, conversation, and shared moments, Underwater Ave opens up a relaxed evening of exchange. Audiences are encouraged to move freely through the space, spend time with the artists and one another, and settle into the unexpected connections unfolding between practices.
Event Details
Date: 30th May, 2026
Time: 4:00pm - 9:30pm
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 the Presenters
About Kush Badhwar
Kush Badhwar works across filmmaking, artistic and urban research as ongoing processes of being with ideas and places over time. He has been exploring the gradual making of counter-narrative around rapid and drastic changes in uses of water and land around urban peripheries.
Image courtesy of Kush Badhwar.
Okwei Odili
Okwei Odili is widely regarded as one of the most compelling contemporary voices in Afrobeat. Building her career between Lagos, Nigeria and Salvador, Brazil, her music reflects deep transatlantic dialogue. In 2013, she received an art grant from UNESCO and the Sacatar Institute in Brazil, where she co-founded IFA Afrobeat. Their debut EP earned the prestigious Caymmi Music Award for Best New Revelation. She later formed the Aweto Band and released her debut solo album Òsùmàrè in 2021, a collaborative project uniting Brazilian and Nigerian musicians. She is currently recording her forthcoming work, River Niger, continuing her exploration of sound as a vessel for cultural exchange and healing.
Photo of Okwei Odili. Image courtesy of Mmaburuzo.
About Oluwasemilore Delano
Oluwasemilore Delano, from Ogun state, Nigeria, is a London,Lagos-based artist whose practice explores memory, lineage, and Black spatial consciousness through drawing and sculpture. Her practice continually returns to the question of what it means to depict the figure, not just as form, but as a site of perception. She is interested in what it means to look, especially when looking is shaped by materials that push back and have their own histories, contexts, and attitudes. Her work engages with materials like charcoal, concrete, oil, and textured black surfaces to interrogate themes of time, self/communal referencing, and cultural inheritance. Delano began her formal art education with a foundation year at the Royal Drawing School, followed by a BA in Architecture at King’s College, University of Cambridge. She later completed an MFA at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, supported by the Black Academic Futures and Penny Freer Scholarships.
Photo of Oluwasemilore. Image courtesy of the artist.
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.