Consisting of film, projected slides and sculpture, our generous mother is a new body of work by Ruskin Associate Professor Onyeka Igwe, and tells the story of the University of Ibadan, the oldest degree-awarding institution in Nigeria:

"Moving through the university’s tropical modernist architecture, the film traces the building’s personal and political histories, from its colonial roots through to national independence, civil war and towards the present day.

Visitors will enter a dark green space which hosts the film in multiple guises. It first takes the form of a Perspex sculpture that fractures the content, alluding to the multiple ways one place can be understood. Towards the middle of the space, the work takes the form of a slide projection. At the back of the gallery, the film then concludes in digital form, projected upon a large cinematic wall.

Across all these different iterations of her work, Igwe draws from her own interest in radical filmmaking to deconstruct the history of the University of Ibadan."
(text by Tate Britain)

Read an essay on Onyeka Igwe's work by Xavier Alexandre Pillai, our mother's peculiar mess.

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