In excellent condition, the cover of the book was handmade by Lorenzo Vitturi and signed and numbered from an edition of just 150 to the front end page. Continuing to explore themes such as globalization, urbanization, colonialism and capitalism, Vitturi has spent the past three years working on the project. The many streets that host the Balogun market sprawl from the shadow of a twenty-seven-storey building called the Financial Trust House. For a long time this building was the tallest on the island, housing western corporations and banks in its heyday. Unoccupied now, real estate developers say the House will remain so for as long as the market is unregulated. Here we find the paradox that so interested Vitturi – where his previous publication Dalston Anatomy surveyed gentrification killing off local business in London, in Lagos he found quite the opposite: gentrification in reverse. Thanks for looking and please do check my other listings for more books, music and art.
