Romeo Shagba

Visual Artist

Video - Based

These are video works from exhibitions and installations, built through a combination of motion design and classical editing techniques including compositing, layering, and non-linear sequencing. These videos extend the concerns of my still work without over-explaining them. Short form is a deliberate choice in a lot of these videos, using motion as a way to expand the image rather than narrate it.

Foresight (2024)

Experimental Short

Recon (2023)

Experimental Short

Felicia (2023)

Single-channel video

Felicia takes its starting point from René Magritte's writing on Surrealism. The video sits inside that idea, treating the dream state not as an escape but as a necessary condition of being.

Bliss (2023)

Single-channel video

 

Occupancy (2026)

Single-channel video

A companion piece to Sprawling Cities, this is a redux of a work that originally ran alongside it in 2017, revisited 9 years after its first presentation at Retro Africa. This time, the audio is more pronounced, layering field recordings and ambient sound to emphasize the dread that persists beneath the noise and density of urban life.

Sprawling Cities (2017)

Single-channel video

Sprawling Cities examines the negative impact of urban sprawl on the individual, the heightened isolation felt by city inhabitants, a quiet dread that persists beneath the noise and density of urban life. Created in dialogue with Nigerian artist Duke Asidere as a companion piece to his paintings, the work draws on a shared concern with what rapid urbanization does to the people caught inside it. As Nigeria's city populations continue to grow exponentially, the tension between that scale and the failure of adequate urban planning becomes impossible to ignore.

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