Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe (born 1986) is a British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker. Her works have been screened at MoMA, Open City Documentary Festival in 2021 and 2022, Rotterdam International in the Netherlands from 2018 to 2020, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Smithsonian African American film festival in 2018, among others. Quotes In the work as much in life, what is said and what we see are not always the same thing. lux.org.uk I often think of images as set up to be visual evidence, so I am thinking on what I understand of witnessing. lux.org.uk It seems embarrassing but you have to commit to the work... Shed the cringe, that is really the phrase. On the vulnerability of voice acting and performance art lux.org.uk No, I don’t think of the archive—more specifically the state or colonial archive—in the past tense. African cinema quotes itself. This is a sign that it now has a history. It attempts to transform this material [colonial footage] from studied spectacle to livingness. Reflecting on why her film Specialised Technique was made maydayrooms.org. What comes next once it has been rendered visible? Questioning the ultimate goal of exposing invisible labour, arguing that simply making something visible isn't always the final solution micemagazine.ca External links Category:Women artists from Nigeria Category:Women artists from the United Kingdom Category:Film directors from Nigeria Category:Film directors from the United Kingdom Category:1986 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Living people