Ufouma Essi

Ufuoma will use the space to push my practice forward by experimenting with sound, installation, working with 8mm &16mm film and preparing for her upcoming solo show at Gasworks in London “Is My Living In Vain”. `She will also use the space to develop work and experiment with new materials in the form of processing film as well as hold rehearsals with actors and performers and work on the production of the film.
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Ufouma Essi

ABOUT Ufouma Essi

Ufuoma Essi Is a video artist and filmmaker from Lewisham, South East London. She works predominantly with film and moving image as well as photography and sound.

Her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories. The archive forms an essential medium for her as an artist and it’s through explorations with the archive that she aims to interrogate and disrupt the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. By using the archive as a process of unlearning and discovery she seeks to re-centre the marginalised histories of the Black Atlantic and specific histories of Black women. Drawing from a range of influences including Black popular culture, films, music, historical texts and Black feminist theory from writers such as Claudia Jones to Daphne Brooks. Essi’s work also seeks to examine the historical and contemporary links between the Black Atlantic and explores intersectional themes of race, gender, class and sexuality.

Her films have been screened and exhibited at film festivals, institutions and galleries in the UK and abroad such as Lisson Gallery, South London Gallery, MOCA Los Angeles, Black Star Film Festival Festival, Maysles Documentary Center, CinemAfrica Film Festival and Chisenhale Studios.
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Ufouma Essi

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