IAMISIGO — Bubu Ogisi

Hand-weaving raw fibre across Lagos, Nairobi and Accra, with the thesis said out loud: garments as vessels for indigenous storytelling, African material intelligence as a discipline rather than a mood. The LVMH semifinal seat is the room arriving late to a practice that has not moved in years. Nothing here needed the prize to make sense — which is exactly why the prize found it.