LP2022 featured project: Unpacking the Suitcase/ Finding Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga
During LagosPhoto21, African Artists’ Foundation engaged the general public in a discussion about restitution through the legacy of the artist, Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga with his discovered archive / suitcase. After schooling as an art student in 1960s Spain, Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga left a suitcase with his archive with his close friend Luisa Guadayol in Barcelona. Luisa passed away in 2016 and her daughter Ana Briongos is contacted AAF with the aim of returning the suitcase to Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga and or his family in Nigeria. Since last year’s announcement, the organisation has successfully located his living relatives and we have officially handed over the suitcase with his son, Doyin Oyenuga as the family representative.
