Invoking a lineage of female ancestors, Igwe reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria.
Onyeka Igwe
Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, born and based in London, United Kingdom. Through her work, Onyeka is 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. Her works have been shown in the UK and internationally at film festivals and galleries. Onyeka is part of B.O.S.S., a sound system collective that brings together a community of queer, trans and non-binary people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Together with Rachel Rakes and Laura Huertas Millán, she is also part of a curatorial and research initiative on alternative anti-ethnographies.
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