Eager to create a photographic story of regional change and the intricate nature of Balogun Market, the artist employs collage, based on the multi-dimensional bond that exists between spaces, humans and inanimate objects. Vitturi did not settle with the photographs he captured in Lagos. He took back a collection of items, purchased at the market, to his London studio, where he experimented with their colour and form, before re-photographing them to create new compositions. Actually, Vitturi’s two-dimensional installations succeed in reflecting this process, whilst also summarising the social and economic complexity of Lagos.

The plastic bowls, woven doormats, chairs, hats, beads, umbrellas, footballs and colourful rolls of fabric… This is the rhythm of Lagosians; part reality and part fantasy. The silent story of Vitturi’s human statues emerge as metaphors of the market – or perhaps as a parade where objects take centre stage… not as shopping items, but as living entities. Vitturi’s photographs go beyond a personal account of Balogun Market. The vendors, the customers, the stalls or the products which flood the shops are all different. Fascinated by the uniqueness of each object and the ingenious ways they are displayed; the photographer travelled to Nigeria multiple times to absorb its nuances and to interview the locals appearing in his photographs.