\u201cThis was my real \u2018fuck it\u2019 era.\u2019 Whatever happens happens \u2014 this is Bobo in action.\u201d<\/p>\n
It may not be as the skater he once was, but with Bobo, Slawn\u2019s still planting roots back into the city\u2019s up-and-comers. As a part of the opening, he invited 10 Nigerian artists to join him on a single, large-scale painting, with profits split between contributors and art supplies for the community.<\/p>\n
In with the new wave of artists, designers and cultural architects in Lagos, comes the city\u2019s long-awaited creative boom, and in full, hard-earned swing, described curator Richard Vedelago, the mind behind Nahous.<\/p>\n
A cross between a gallery, concept store, furniture showroom, and bar, the space launched earlier this year inside the historic Federal Palace Hotel and has already found its grounds as a steward within Lagos\u2019 cultural ecosystem. \u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting for this,\u201d Vedelago added. \u201c[Slawn’s] not just coming home because he\u2019s succeeded abroad; he\u2019s coming home to add value to where we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tense over the show, Slawn scrambles to book a flight while on the phone, only to find London to Lagos one-ways sold out, a first for him, another reflection of the city\u2019s mounting creative momentum. Above the jitters and the pressure to impress, though, is an oddly fitting chaos for the artist, the same kind of serendipity, leap of faith, that admittedly fuels most of his moves. \u201cEverything in my life is random and rushed,\u201d he explains. \u201cThat\u2019s when I know it\u2019s the right time to do it; that\u2019s when I press the gas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was my real \u2018fuck it\u2019 era,\u201d Slawn continues. \u201cWhatever happens happens \u2014 this is Bobo in action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis was my real \u2018fuck it\u2019 era.\u2019 Whatever happens happens \u2014 this is Bobo in action.\u201d It may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-215089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}