This immersive project, created in collaboration with the International Committee of Museums of Memory and Human Rights (ICMEMOHRI) and the National Committee of Nigeria, both part of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) aims to raise awareness of a number of issues affecting Nigeria today, and how they inevitably affect the rest of the world.
We aim to hit that sweet spot on the Venn diagram: issues of vital local and global importance that are nevertheless systematically underestimated and ignored by the fast-paced world of social media and the 24-hour news cycle. Through carefully selected art exhibitions and a series of lectures, this project will allow us to collectively step back and confront these vitally important issues that are too often rendered invisible by the pace of our daily lives, from a new angle that will clearly expose the problems before us and, at the same time, offer a glimmer of hope...
https://icmemo.mini.icom.museum/art-focus-on-human-rights-and-womens-rig...
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