This June, Spanish artist, Yago Sanchez, is bringing his crystal mosaic works to Nigeria for the first time in an immersive exhibition titled The Precision of Light in the Dark.

The first-of-its kind exhibition is curated by Nigerian-British artist and African holistic natural living advocate, Lola Bashua.

The exhibition will run from 17 to 20 June 2026, 10am to 6pm, at Integra Art Space in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos and admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibition marks a significant moment, not only for Sanchez, whose decade-long career has been rooted in the Spanish craft tradition, but for Lagos as a city, now increasingly at the centre of the global contemporary art world.

The Precision of Light in the Dark is an immersive body of crystal mosaic work that asks the viewer to slow down and look again. Up close, each piece fractures into hundreds of individual crystal fragments, vitreous tesserae, glass, marble, assembled with a precision that only reveals itself with proximity.

Step back, and a figure, a face, a form emerges from what seemed like fragmentation. It is a show about the relationship between detail and distance, between what we see clearly and what we understand.

Sanchez draws on techniques spanning traditional Roman mosaic, the trencadis method popularised by Gaudí and the characteristic stone craft of Granada, applying them to works that feel entirely of the present moment.

Light moves across the surface differently at different hours. The works are not static. They shift. For Lagos audiences, this is a first encounter with an artist whose material language is unlike anything currently in the city’s gallery circuit.

The exhibition reveals the connection between Spanish craft heritage and the expanding scale of contemporary African art, between two traditions that carry a shared history.

Curator Lola Bashua, speaking on the exhibition, said: “I brought Sanchez to Lagos because I believe Lagos is now ready to host international artists and because I believe this work deserves a Lagos audience. What drew me to his work was the same thing that draws me to any creative practice that holds its integrity: the commitment to material truth. Every crystal fragment in these pieces is placed by hand, with intention. There is no shortcut in mosaic. The image only emerges through patience, precision, and a deep understanding of how light moves through matter.”

Bashua, a painter working in oils, draws a direct line between her own practice and what she encountered in Sanchez’s work. “As a painter, I understand the relationship between a medium and what it reveals,” she said. “Yago’s crystals reveal something I find deeply resonant, the idea that the complete can only be fully understood once you have sat with the fragments. That is not just an artistic idea. It is a way of seeing.”

On the significance of hosting an international artist in Lagos, Bashua was emphatic. “Hosting a western artist is not to overshadow our home-grown talents but to validate them, reinforcing to them that home is the best place to be. As we are being restored as the masters of the arts, a nod to Nok, the world now comes to us to pay homage. We are establishing Nigeria as the world centre of arts, one exhibition at a time.”

Sanchez is a self-taught Spanish artist with a career spanning more than a decade. His entry into the art world began with a sustained exploration of mosaic as a living form, working with vitreous tesserae, glass, marble and stone across techniques that include trencadis, traditional Roman mosaic and the characteristic stone craft of Granada.

What began as a deep curiosity for the world of art in all its expressions became a profession and a discipline. His crystal mosaic works have evolved into a distinctive visual language that sits at the intersection of craft, sculpture, and painting, surfaces that hold light and release it differently depending on where you stand. The Lagos exhibition is his Nigerian debut.

The curator, Lola Bashua, is a Nigerian-British artist, curator, actress and indigenous African natural holistic lifestyle advocate. As a curator, Bashua is drawn to work that holds material integrity and spiritual intention, qualities she pursues in equal measure across her painting, acting performances, writing and the natural holistic African vegan lifestyle practice she documents publicly and practises daily. The Precision of Light in the Dark is her first major curatorial project in Lagos.

The exhibition is made possible with the support of Uno Telos, a Lagos-based technology and multi-systems integrator operating across nine African markets.

Working at the intersection of telecommunications, network infrastructure, surveillance, and emerging technologies, Uno Telos has built a reputation as one of Nigeria’s most forward-looking technology companies since its founding in 2004.

Their support of this exhibition reflects something important: that technology and culture are not separate conversations. Bringing international art to Lagos requires the same infrastructure thinking that Uno Telos applies to its work, the conviction that Nigeria deserves the best and the commitment to making that possible.