Onyeka Igwe’s Programme 2 presents her award-winning film the names have been changed, including my own and truths have been altered (2019), in which Igwe explores the story of her grandfather, the story of ‘the land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria from a single point in time, in a single place. The film throws the ordinary and the everyday within the archive into relief by daring to write and re-write the stories of diasporic African life against the grain of colonial history’s master narratives. Showing in the Nunnery’s cinema-screen set-up alongside 24 other artists’ works the show will interrogate themes of memory, narrative, identity and the archive.
We are invited to bear witness to injustice and protest in Iran (Niyaz Saghari), trace the relationships between Guyana and Scotland through photographs, sewing and matrilineal lines (Maybelle Peters), and observe a vampiric trio facilitating the transition of a new host in the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene (Lou Lou Sainsbury and Gabi Dao) to name a few from the works hailing from 9 different countries.
Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film and performance.
Programme 2 Exhibiting Artists: Lucy Cash, Kate Clark, Jo Cope, Gabi Dao, Anna Doyle, Duck & Rabbit Projects (Arlene Wandera and Richard Zeiss), Tessa Garland, Onyeka Igwe, Sana Iqbal, Mark Jeffery, Emery Joan, Maria Joranko, Anthea Kennedy, Bo Lanyon, Maybelle Peters, Niyaz Saghari, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Kadie Salmon, Vicky Smith, Wilma Stone, Kialy Tihngang, Sasha Waters, Ian Wiblin and Sheri Wills.
