Until 27 September 2025, Efie Gallery is hosting Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough…, a poignant group exhibition that brings together five artists — Samuel Fosso, Aïda Muluneh, Kelani Abass, Abeer Sultan, and Sumayah Fallatah — to explore the emotional and political contours of time, memory, and healing. Curated by Ose Ekore, the exhibition navigates the complex aftermath of personal and collective trauma, as well as the echoes of historical rupture and cultural resilience.
Samuel Fosso (b. 1962, Cameroon) is a Central African photographer celebrated for his genre-defining self-portraits that merge performance and politics. His images often critique colonial legacies, Pan-African identity, and the construction of historical icons. In this exhibition, Fosso continues to use the camera as a stage to embody complex figures and emotions, blurring personal narrative with historical commentary.
Aïda Muluneh (b. 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) creates vibrant photo compositions that fuse traditional Ethiopian aesthetics with contemporary visual language. Formerly a photojournalist, her work addresses issues of social justice, water scarcity, and female empowerment through a symbolic, surrealist lens. Muluneh brings to the exhibition a bold visual lexicon where body, colour, and geometry become tools of resistance and reflection.
Nigerian artist Kelani Abass (b. 1979) combines painting, photography, and printing techniques in his meticulous, layered works which investigate the tension between personal memory and official history. Abass integrates archival photographs, typefaces, and found materials to examine Nigeria’s postcolonial evolution. His practice is deeply rooted in themes of loss, remembrance, and the fragility of recorded time.
Saudi multidisciplinary artist Abeer Sultan (b. 1999) explores themes of identity, introspection, and the body as a site of transformation. Her work frequently employs abstraction, material experimentation, and gestural forms to process grief, isolation, and the search for grounding in a shifting world. Sultan’s contributions to this show evoke the language of wounds — emotional, spiritual, and physical — as unresolved yet vital spaces of growth.
Saudi-Nigerian photographer Sumayah Fallatah (b. 2000) works across installation, drawing, and sound to examine how histories, especially those of women, are stored, silenced, and recalled. Her practice is informed by archival research and oral storytelling; she often uses minimal or poetic visual cues to evoke absence and fragility. In this exhibition, Fallatah investigates the slippages between memory and forgetting, offering work that is as much about presence as it is about what remains unsaid.
To learn more about Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough, please visit the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might be interested in viewing LOBI LOBI by Pascale Marthine Tayou, one of the online exhibitions at the Cultural Foundation.
