Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe is a London born & based moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? Not to provide a rigid answer as such, but to pull apart the nuances of mutuality and co-existence in our deeply individualized world. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness. For her, the body, archives and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories . 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. Onyeka’s video works have been screened internationally at MoMA, ICA London, Dhaka Art Summit, and festivals including London Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Penkelemes

A rebellious remembering and reclamation of The University of Ibadan, a former institution of British colonial rule in Nigeria.

Onyeka Igwe
Nigeria, United Kingdom 2025 19' leff 2026
Shot from movie Penkelemes by Onyeka Igwe