Lagos biennial holds mirror to gentrification as squatters evicted

Exhibition theme, Living on the Edge, takes on new meaning as artists and squatters at disused railway shed turfed out by state-owned railway companyWhen the organisers of Nigeria’s first biennial art exhibition called it Living on the Edge, they could not have known how painfully apt the theme would be.It was inspired by the squatters living in the carriages and buildings of a disused railway shed, and their counterparts across Lagos, where housing is in short supply, and vast wealth and