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Onyeka Igwe Quotes

born 1986 Nigeria

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.

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In the work as much in life, what is said and what we see are not always the same thing.

What comes next once it has been rendered visible?

It attempts to transform this material [colonial footage] from studied spectacle to livingness.

I often think of images as set up to be visual evidence, so I am thinking on what I understand of witnessing.

No, I don’t think of the archive—more specifically the state or colonial archive—in the past tense.

It seems embarrassing but you have to commit to the work... Shed the cringe, that is really the phrase.

African cinema quotes itself. This is a sign that it now has a history.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Onyeka Igwe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.