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Onyeka Igwe

A Radical Duet

The Miracle on George Green

a so-called archive
No Archive Can Restore You
the names have changed…
No Dance, No Palaver
Corrections
Sung
We Need New Names

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We Need New Names (2015) ︎
An essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.

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All images are stills from We Need New Names. Courtesy of the artist.