Last year, The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Art [CIRCA] invited Marina Abramović to unveil her first foray into NFTs across the CIRCA global network of screens. Similarly, this year, Nigerian-born, London-based artist Slawn will halt billboards worldwide at 20:23 local time daily until New Year’s Eve in London, Milan, Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, and Los Angeles with his artwork. Titled GONE?, the collaboration marks the arrival of CIRCA on the African continent, debuting on screens across Accra, Nairobi, Abidjan, and Slawn’s hometown of Lagos.

Asking the question, ‘Has all hope gone?’ Slawn meditates on the universal notion of longing and desire through his cartoonish-like pop figures and kaleidoscopic colour palette. Created in an empty shop in Piccadilly Circus, Slawn locked himself away in solitude to complete the large-scale artworks while being film faced on by CIRCA spray-painting onto perspex sheets, a nod to Picasso painting on glass at his home in Vallauris in 1950 while a VHS camera rolled.

Populating billboards across the globe until midnight strikes on December 31st, all of Slawn’s works commissioned by CIRCA will come together in an exhibition in the spring of 2024.

Find out more information on CIRCA and Slawns collaboration here.