Curatorial Statement: Sea Never Dry
Sea Never Dry takes its name from the long-term photographic series by Akinbode Akinbiyi, who since 1982 has returned to Bar Beach, Lagos, observing how its shoreline reflects the city’s shifting rhythms. His images form a rare visual archive of Lagos’s evolving relationship with the Atlantic. Through quiet gestures of walking, resting, praying, and gathering, Akinbiyi captures the beach as both a social stage and a site of contemplation. Over four decades, his photographs record the slow disappearance of this once-vibrant public ground under commercial and environmental pressures, revealing the sea not as spectacle but as witness- a repository of memory and endurance…
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