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Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia - Rua da Graça, 284, Graça
Pivô invites the public to the opening of the exhibition Echoes Across the Atlantic: Building with Loss, by Beninese artist and curator Olufèmi Hinson Yovo, on Saturday, November 8, at 5pm, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia (MAC_BAHIA). The exhibition will be open to visitors from Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 8pm, until November 23.
In the exhibition, Olufèmi proposes a reflection on European colonization in relation to the architectures of West Africa and Salvador. Through the installation Cadavre Esquis (Exquisite Corpse), the artist invites the public to collectively build an archive of memories — an affective cartography connecting Dakar, Ouidah, and Bahia.
Echoes Across the Atlantic is an exhibition organized by the Atlantic Threads project, as part of the Brazil–France Season 2025, with the support of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia (MAC_BAHIA), the French Institute of Benin, and the Guimarães Rosa Institute, with sponsorship from PETROBRAS. The exhibition is produced by the Instituto Cultural Acrópole, through the Brazilian Federal Government, Cultural Incentive Law, Ministry of Culture.
Echoes Across the Atlantic: Building with Loss
Opening: Saturday, November 8, 5pm
Visitation: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am–8pm, until November 23
MAC_BAHIA (Rua da Graça, 284 – Graça)
Free admission
Olufemi is an architect, designer, researcher and curator based in Cotonou, Benin. She is the founder of Sah Studio, a polymath research- based practice in Cotonou, developing projects from various scales and materiality, celebrating the local context with a focus on decolonizing architecture. Her process flows around design and research on biodiversity in the city, heritage, informality and habitat in Cotonou and West Africa.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Sc) and 2 masters , a Fine Arts (MFA) in the United Kingdom and a Master of Architecture and HMONP from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. She has worked in Dakar, Paris, Abidjan and Cotonou where oversaw as project manager for world class architects, Benin’s leading construction project, 20 000 housings.
She participated in the 14th and 18th Venice Biennale, exhibited at African Mobilities in Architekturmuseum, Munich and is the Laureate of the Prince Claus Building Beyond 2023 Prize. She is the co-author of Building African Future (Iwaléwabooks, 2023).
She has, over the last 10 years, developed a keen interest in West African architecture spanning from vernacular to postmodern, through her various travels in the continents, culminating in her appointment as curator for the first West African architecture exhibition at the Dak’art Biennale 2024 OFF for EUNIC entitled « Architecture of West Africa: Yesterday’s Heritage, Tomorrow’s cities ». She is a member of the Beninese Board of Architects and a tutor at Africa Design School in Cotonou.