Lagos, Lagos
Across the Atlantic from each other, two coastal cities share the same name: over 600 years, the voices of voyagers who have journeyed between them, testify to an unequal history of movement between Nigeria and Portugal, Africa and Europe.
Year: 2018
Length: 22′
Format: HD, stereo and 5.1
Languages: Igbo, Yoruba, Portuguese,
English, Pidgin
Subtitles: English
Sound/Image/Edit: Nnenna Onuoha
Production: DocNomads
Exhibitions:
A F T E R L I V E S. Galerie im Turm. Berlin, DE. 2022-3.
Exhibitions:
A F T E R L I V E S. Galerie im Turm. 2022-3.
‘How do I explain that I remember feelings more than I’m remembering the facts?‘
–Mehitabel ‘Metty‘ Markwei in The A-Team
During the exhibition AFTERLIVES, Nnenna Onuoha shows four of her recent video works. Each of them will be presented in an individual display, one after another. Centering Afrodiasporic voices in processes such as collective re-membering, archiving of Black experience and (self-)care, Onuoha approaches histories of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States. By carefully and repeatedly applying these methods, the artist generates histories of the past that can be shared collectively and thus may work as a means to repair.
