Research

  • Layt De Kam
  • GRANTEE
    Ibiye Camp
    GRANT YEAR
    2026

Ibiye Camp, “MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan, Takoradi, site visit,” 2025. Digital photograph. Courtesy Ibiye Camp

A chatter of stories and laughter, to the clank of fishing equipment being arranged on the platform. When you listen closely, a humming in the distance reveals itself, an ambient buzz of a generator. It is constant. Like the canoe boats that are parked at the harbor, it is a fragile, extended land that is ephemeral. This is a Karpowership, a floating vessel, a body of power. This powership is not attached to the land, which lends to the possibility that its positioning could change; its temporality floats in the harbor, providing power to the country's electrical grid. The large generators are trembling, adding ripples in the water. Plugged into the land through transmission lines. This body of work investigates the tension of the large temporary power solutions, its temporality and the lives of the citizens who live around these infrastructures.

Ibiye Camp is a British Nigerian artist based in London. She presented her work at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, titled Rights of Future Generations, in 2019. In 2023, Camp was included in the 18th International Architecture Biennale – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, within the special projects Guests from the Future, and in 2024, she was included in Unseen Guests, a project organized by Iniva as part of the British Pavilion’s public program at the 60th International Art Biennale, Venice. Camp has her first institutional solo show at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom, titled Layt De Kam in January 2026. Camp holds a master’s of arts in architecture from the Royal College of Art, and a bachelor’s of arts (with honors) in fine art from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. Camp’s thesis project titled “Data: The New Black Gold” was awarded the School of Architectures Dean’s Prize and was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal Award.