Tobi Onabolu

Tobi Onabolu is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer and performer working between the UK and West Africa. His practice explores movement, identity, spirituality and collective memory through film, performance and installations.

In 2025, his work was presented by New Afro in the exhibition Héritage… Mémoires en mouvements in Cotonou (Benin) at Galerie Zato. There, he presented The Constant Is Flux, an installation reflecting on transformation and the fluid nature of identity and memory.

At the core of the project, the video work Ojú-Inú invites an inward gaze, while the iconic “Ghana Must Go” bag, associated with migration and exile, is reimagined as a symbolic and almost sacred object. Through layered references, including colonial archives, Onabolu’s work meditates on displacement, historical violence and the continuous reconfiguration of self and culture.