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

— Onyeka Igwe

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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.

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

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