Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA), November 1st, 2025 – January 31st, 2026.

Curated by Emmanuel Ndefo and Mary Osarentin Omoregie

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, is pleased to announce the opening of Sea Never Dry, a group exhibition which inaugurates an important conversation on the cultural and historical resonances of a site that continues to shape the social and imaginative life of Lagos.

Taking its title from the distinguished photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi’s long-term photographic series initiated in 1982, Sea Never Dry sensitively chronicles the rhythms of life at Lagos’s historic Bar Beach. Once a pivotal cultural and social landmark, at once a site of leisure, ritual, political assembly, and national reflection, Bar Beach has been irrevocably altered by the Eko Atlantic reclamation project. Its transformation underscores urgent questions of memory, erasure, and the shifting contours of the city’s urban landscape. This exhibition is conceived as a multidisciplinary platform for reflection and inquiry.

Through the convergence of photography, installation, performance, archival research, Sound and community voices, Sea Never Dry examines the intersections of coastal identity, climate change, urban redevelopment, and collective memory. It invites audiences to engage critically with the legacies of Bar Beach and to consider broader narratives of resilience, displacement, and belonging within Lagos and beyond. The exhibition features work by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Odun Orimolade, Zaynab Odunsi, Christopher Obuh, Nengi Nelson, and Peter Okotor.

Exhibition: https://ccalagos.org/sea-never-dry/
Sound: https://soundcloud.com/computer-village-1