Folktales
Beyond
Borders

Tales by Moonlight…

Abiosè is currently working between memory, storytelling, and heritage. Her philosophical art starts off in the oral traditions and local environments she grew up with in Lagos, particularly the cultural ritual of the TV series Tales by Moonlight, where stories were shared at dusk and carried lessons to tens of millions across generations.

After becoming a mother in the African diaspora, Abiosè began retelling these stories— first for her children, and then through painting. This body of work emerges from that act of reconnection and preservation. Each piece draws from African folktales across different countries, where animals, landscapes, and domestic spaces become vessels for memory and meaning.

“Folktales Beyond Borders”, is created in an illustrative style, for it is fine art designed with children and future generations in their earliest stage of life in mind. Folktales Beyond Borders explores how stories travel—how they shift across geographies, generations, and identities—while remaining rooted in cultural inheritance. In this way, painting becomes both an immortalisation and a continuation of African & Pangaean oral storytelling traditions.