When:
23/09/2021 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2021-09-23T12:00:00+01:00
2021-09-23T17:00:00+01:00
Where:
LUX
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
Cost:
Free
Contact:
LUX
02031412960
a so-called archive, Onyeka Igwe @ LUX

LUX is pleased to announce an exhibition of moving image, sound and ephemera by Onyeka Igwe showing at LUX, Waterlow Park from 8th September to 17th October 2021.

Booking is encouraged but you are welcome to walk-in. Book here

With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe’s a so-called archive interrogates the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over 2020 in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—this double portrait considers the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of their memory and their materials. Igwe’s film imagines what might have been ‘lost’ from these archives. It mixes the genres of the radio play, the corporate video tour, and detective noir, with a haunting and critical approach to the horror of discovery.

a so-called archive depicts the former vaults—along with their histories of hoarding, monetisation, documentation and now abandonment—as metonyms for the enduring entanglements between the UK and its former colonies. These sites were and continue to be home to purulent images that we cannot, will not, or choose not to see. -Mason Leaver-Yap

Igwe’s first solo exhibition at LUX a so-called archive, includes the film of the same name, as well as an outdoor audio piece and ephemeral display in the library expanding on the archives interrogated in the film. A collective reading event will also take place on Saturday 16th October – details to be announced. Audio described and captioned screenings will take place daily.

This exhibition is part of this year’s Curatorial Fellowship programme this broken piece of yard by Cairo Clarke. 


Screening Schedule

The runtime of a so-called archive is 20 minutes. The film will screen three times within a one-hour time slot. The first screening will be followed by audio described and captioned screenings. Booking is encouraged but you are welcome to walk in. Please check the screening schedule below. (AD: Audio Description, OC: Open Caption) 

12pm | 12.20pm (with AD) | 12.40pm (with OC)

1pm | 1.20pm (with AD) | 1.40pm (with OC)

2pm | 2.20pm (with AD) | 2.40pm (with OC)

3pm | 3.20pm (with AD) | 3.40pm (with OC)

4pm | 4.20pm (with AD) | 4.40pm (with OC)

Published by LUX

LUX is London based agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image

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