Ellephant Gallery at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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Ellephant Gallery at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Somerset House, London

From: October 15th 2026
to: October 18th 2026

Ellephant Gallery (Montreal) brings two artists to London to represent Canada at this major art fair.

Ghanian-Canadian, Ekow Nimako, known for his intricate sculptures created exclusively from black LEGO® elements, presents four masks and a new large-scale freestanding figurative sculpture. Combining West African cultural history with science fiction and interstellar forms, Nimako transforms these references into a distinct visual language of shape, volume, and structure.

Multidisciplinary artist Stanley Wany revisits colonial and historical archives to explore the experiences and histories of Afro-descendant communities. Wany will premiere two large-scale mixed-media drawings that incorporate materials such as coffee, charcoal, and cotton and that explore the historical and symbolic weight of the substances from which they are created.

Image: Stanley Wany, La Sirène, 2026 (Detail)

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