Truth is in the Details

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Truth is in the Details

Exhibiting Artists: Tochukwu Orazulike | Abimbola “boyer” Alade | Kitan Ayanda Ololade Lawal | Joseph Oluwasegun | James Adebayo

Date: 20 June – 11 July, 2026

Nomadic Art Gallery. 22, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos

Some truths do not reveal themselves loudly.

They do not announce themselves in full form, but linger in fragments, gestures, repetitions, and distortions. They exist in what is almost missed – in the space between images, within layered surfaces, hidden figures, and coded visual languages.

Truth Is in the Details brings together six artists whose practices unfold through layered visual languages that resist immediate visibility. Through investigations of memory, environment, architecture, materiality, and visual experience, the exhibition considers detail as the site where meaning resides, rather than a supplementary aspect of it.

The exhibition asks what can be discovered when we look more carefully.

Where does truth reveal itself?

Can looking closely become an ethical act?

What is hidden inside patterns, symbols, and fragments?

What traces of the past remain within the spaces we inhabit?

Who decides what is remembered and what is overlooked?

What truths emerge only through proximity?

What is revealed through distortion or repetition?

How do we recognize what has been intentionally obscured?

How do we navigate change, adaptation, and unpredictability in everyday life?

In an era defined by speed, distraction, and information overload, the exhibition offers an invitation to pause, look again, and consider the possibility that the most significant truths are often found in what appears smallest, quietest, or hidden from view.

One Faithful Evening

48″ x 60″
Acrylic, Spray & Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

Things I Can’t Comprehend

24.4″ x 40″
Acrylic, Spray & Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

The Highs and the Lows I

23.6″ x 39″
Acrylic, Spray & Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

The Highs and the Lows II (Diptych)

15.7″ x 23.6″
Acrylic, Spray & Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

I Spent the Whole day in my Head

47″ x 39″
Acrylic, Spray & Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

Just Looking Through

36″ x 36″
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
2026

What Did I Miss?

36″ x 24″
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
2026

Near Enough

24″ x 36″
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
2026

Closing In

36″ x 36″
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
2026

Conversation with Myself I

60″ x 48″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026

Conversations with Myself II

60″ x 48″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026

Emerald Reverie

48″ x 36″
Gum Arabic Charcoal & Acrylic on Canvas
2026

Through the Window’s Eyes III

36″ x 48″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026

Holding on to the Truth, I Think I’m Fine Now

40″ x 31.5″
Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

Don’t Fly too Close to the Sun for the Truth

40″ x 31.5″
Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

The Hanging Truth on the Highest Mountain

40″ x 31.5″
Oil Paint on Canvas
2026

Shinjitsu is in the Details

36″ x 36″
Mixed Media & Textured Acrylic on Canvas
2026

The Choices I Make

36″ x 24″
Mixed Media & Textured Acrylic on Canvas
2026

Epitome

36″ x 36″
Mixed Media & Textured Acrylic on Canvas
2026

A home not entirely my own I

48″ x 48″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026

A home not entirely my own II (diptych)

24″ x 48″ each
Acrylic on Canvas
2026

A home not entirely my own III

48″ x 48″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026