Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher born and based in London, UK, working between cinema and installation.

Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question “how do we live together?” – with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatial and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question. She uses embodiment, archives, narration, and text to create structural “figure-of-eights,” a form that exposes a multiplicity of narratives.

Onyeka is part of B.O.S.S., a sound system collective that brings together a community of queer, trans, and non-binary people of color involved in art, sound, and radical activism. Together with Rachael Rakes and Laura Huertas Millán, she is also part of a research initiative on alternative ethnographies and antiethnographies. Her works have been shown in the UK and internationally at film festivals and galleries, whereas she has upcoming solo shows at Mercer Union (CA) and LUX (UK).