At its heart, this exhibition are the Iyalabaji paintings, created with artist and spiritual healer Lucy SM Johnston, evolving in the exchange between seen and unseen worlds.
Yoruba storytelling through ancestors and spirit guides, alongside mentor John Aluko’s guidance, echo within the Aniwura Collective’s photographs and artworks.
This page is built as a self-contained exhibition layout, combining image, atmosphere and rhythm rather than reading like a standard event listing.
The design language moves through indigo shadow, burnished gold, clay and parchment tones to echo healing, endurance, spiritual resonance and communal witness.
This exhibition follows Angie Aniwura’s path through spirit, healing and care. After a hysterectomy in 2013, her body became a threshold for loss, dreams and transformation. Initiation into the sacred of Òrìṣà offered guidance, resilience, and a presence of motherhood she had not known before. She was welcomed into a society of Ìyá Ìbejì Òrìṣà.
Before her breast cancer diagnosis in 2023, Angie collaborated with artist and spiritual healer Lucy SM Johnston in a photographic session conceived as a homage to Iyalabaji, capturing their energy. After her diagnosis, painting together became a space of trust & dialogue.
Throughout her recovery and remission, community became central. Storytelling by Peju Alatise, guidance from mentor Jelili Atiku, and documentation by the Aniwura Collective, Bénédicte Kurzen, Dotun Adekoya, Andrewa Horn and Anthony Aderinle held and witnessed her journey. Together, they form a living archive, not to illness, but to endurance, memory, and the quiet sustaining power of presence, connection, and communal care.
Loss, dreams and transformation recast the body as a site of passage and spiritual change.
The photographic homage to Iyalabaji shifts into a shared painting practice of trust and dialogue.
Mentors, storytellers and collaborators become witnesses in a living archive of endurance and presence.
“The mutual understanding among these artists is an unspoken language that feels immediate, a recognition carried through presence alone.”Lison Sabrina Musset
During my research curating this exhibition I realised the mutual understanding among these artists is an unspoken language that feels immediate, a recognition that happens through presence alone, through sight, through shared spiritual alignment. I first met Angie whilst producing a group exhibition she was part of last year and I immediately felt the same instant connection as if we had known each other for a long time. I might have been part of that sacred resonance.
Lucy’s photographic session from that same year captured what now feels prophetic: the strength and spiritual power of Iyalabaji embodied in Angie, even before her breast cancer diagnosis.
Central to the exhibition’s journey through spirit, healing, memory and care.
Part of the living archive of witness, documentation and shared presence.
Contributing to the photographic and artistic record surrounding the exhibition.
Included within the collective witness that frames endurance, memory and presence.
Collaborator on the Iyalabaji paintings and photographic session, shaping the exchange between seen and unseen worlds.
Part of the ongoing communal documentation that holds Angie’s journey in relation.
Storytelling within the exhibition deepens its sense of lineage, endurance and care.
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