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David Ụzọchukwu

New Suns, New Worlds: David Ụzọchukwu Reimagines Blackness—and NatureThe Austrian–Nigerian photographer conjures new rhapsodic possibilities for living in the world, with the world.

new suns

David Ụzọchukwu

Curated by Ekow Eshun, New Suns is a stunning exhibition by artist David Ụzọchukwu that places Black figures in otherworldly landscapes. From charred forests to golden deserts, these photographs challenge colonial depictions of nature while exploring themes of marginalisation, climate change, and coexistence. Inspired by the late Afrofuturist author Octavia E. Butler’s parable, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns”, the works envision hopeful futures amid ecological and social crises, blending intimacy with apocalyptic grandeur.

new suns

David Ụzọchukwu

Jeune prodige de la photographie ayant notamment collaboré avec la chanteuse FKA twigs, David Uzochukwu dévoile une exposition personnelle avec la galerie Gomis, qui investit pour l’occasion l’espace de la Sheriff Gallery. Autodidacte, l’artiste austro-nigérian débute la photographie à ses seize ans par l’autoportrait et se démarque très vite par son univers léché imprégné par l’afrofuturisme, où des modèles noirs sont plongés dans une nature captivante et onirique.

Stylist Louise Ford and photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman have created a series of images curated by Emmanuelle Atlan and Sophie Strobele that showcase Mokoro. The result is a collaborative multimedia exhibition that unites photographs, video and interviews, recreating the inspiring sanctuary of Warembo Wasanii exhibited in Paris.

A collaborative multimedia exploration of the sanctuary of sisterhood by Kristin-Lee Moolman and Louise Ford. Produced and supported by Farago Projects. Featuring the work of Joan Otieno and the studio of Warembo Wasanii in Korogocho, Nairobi.

The world within the walls of Warembo Wasanii provides a stark contrast to this environment...as you cross the threshold from the street into the studio, a veil of calm descends and you no longer feel endangered by your feminine form.

new suns

David Ụzọchukwu

Trailblazing Octavia E. Butler’s parable, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” is the starting point of David Uzochukwu’s new exhibition in Paris, opening November 7. Aptly titled New Suns, the photographer-cum-artist’s new solo show at Sheriff Gallery deals with topics like humankind vs nature, the Global South, and climate change. Both threatening and welcoming, dreamy and dystopian, Uzochukwu’s work perfectly encapsulates our world’s contradictions.

In/Visible is a fundraiser and show group, curated by Sophie Strobele that boasts a host of vibrant contributors. The participating artists include Térence Bikoumou, Mathias Depardon, Fatoumata Diabaté, Kevin Felicianne, Bettina Pittaluga, Cédrine Scheidig, Wendelin Spiess, Charlotte Yonga, and young Soul Food members. Soul Foodis a charity helping migrant children feel at home in Paris, whose members are unaccompanied minors, young migrants, and refugee youth between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two.

Powered by the producer Baby Prod, the non-profit creative organisation ERE Foundation, the technological production house Sheriff Projects, and the online gallery and auction space for young contemporary artists Artissue Gallery, the exhibition is an empathetic response to the atrocities of war, not just from a Ukrainian point of view, but globally. The artworks sold at this exhibition are priced at 120€ each, and all proceedings are donated to humanitarian aid in Ukraine to provide food, clothing, medicine, and shelter for refugees, and buy staple goods for the population.

Dans l’Himalaya, une distribution de lunettes pour se protéger du soleil

new suns

David Ụzọchukwu

David Ụzọchukwu‘s works in New Suns depict black figures within strange natural landscapes that seem to be dreams or myths, ranging from charred forests to dark-as-night seas and safran colored deserts.

By placing only black bodies in these environments, Ụzọchukwu invites us to reflect on the historical marginalization of people of color in the narratives of the natural world.

new suns

David Ụzọchukwu

“I’m glad to dedicate space to envisioning new shades of Blackness and symbiotic ways of being in the world”
David Ụzọchukwu

MOKORO: AN
EXHIBITION OF
SANCTUARY,
CREATIVITY, AND
SISTERHOOD

KRISTIN-LEE MOOLMAN, LOUISE FORD AND SOPHIE
STROBELE DISCUSS THEIR NEW EXHIBITION, MOKORO,
A MULTIMEDIA PROJECT DOCUMENTING THE WORK
AND SISTERHOOD OF KENYA’S WAREMBO WASANII

The art of photography is a tool used for aesthetic, expression, and in the case of photojournalism, protest. Wahidy’s photographic documenting gives a voice to the women who have, for years, been silenced; with the help of Hope, these young photographers will be able to tell their own stories, without fear.