A Canvas For The Damned
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When 22-year-old Kikelomo Olayiwola gets selected for an exclusive, all-expenses-paid art residency at the prestigious Olowo Art Pavilion in Ibadan, she believes her big break has finally come. The gallery is legendary, the artists are elite, and the curators? Cold, eccentric, and obsessed with control.
But once inside, she realizes this isn't just a space for creativity. It's a house of secrets, whispers, and rituals. Artists start disappearing. Paintings bleed. Doors lock without reason. And somehow, her art seems to know things she hasn't yet told anyone.
As her sense of reality unravels, Kikelomo must decide: is this all in her head, or is the gallery alive-and hungry?
Because in Olowo Pavilion, you don't just create art.
You become it.
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