Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe is a London born and 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, co-existence and multiplicity. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. For her, the body, archives and narratives- both oral and textual – act as a mode of inquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness. Her works have been shown in the UK and internationally at film festivals and galleries.

Onyeka Igwe’s book The Making of June Givanni’s Pan African Cinema Archive will be published by Lawrence Wishart in early 2025, as part of LW’s Radical Black Women book series.

Photo by Marissa Alper/MoMA PS1