Onyeka Igwe

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

My work is dominated by a preoccupation with the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning. Namely, the contradiction between their internal structures and external representations. I am animated by the question — how do we live together? — with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatial and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question. She uses embodiment, archives, narration and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a form that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound. My ambition is always towards a visceral and affective experience that disrupts and complicates notions of knowledge and documentation.

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