TRANSIT

Located inside The Ken Nwadiogbu Artist Room at Nordic Hotel, Transit is an immersive mural that invites guests to live within art. This site-specific installation transforms the walls of a hotel room into a living canvas, where warmth and stillness converge.

Wrapped in layered textures of abstract expression, the mural centers around the unexpected image of an escalator, ascending from the headboard. It stretches across like a whispered invitation to release and simply let yourself be carried. Its palette echoing the calm of dusk, or the hush of an airport lounge at midnight.

For Ken Nwadiogbu, the escalator holds deep symbolic resonance. “No matter how rushed or anxious you are,” he reflects, “an escalator forces you to pause, to let go for a moment as it carries you forward. It calms you, guides you, and takes you exactly where you need to be.” Transit becomes a portal into that philosophy. Rooted in his own ritual of returning to Lagos, the work reflects the gentle reckoning that travel and rest can offer a space where clarity replaces chaos, and movement becomes restoration.

This is a space of quiet transformation, a personal departure lounge disguised as a bedroom. Book a stay, and you enter a portal: a place to pause, to reflect, and to prepare for whatever comes next.

Created in collaboration with Nordic Hotel, Lagos.

Mural executed with the assistance of Wasiu Eshinlokun.