Catriona Jeffries

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe is an artist, curator, and writer. Using content as an experimental device for the examination of plural themes, his interdisciplinary practice is an inquiry into semiotic dissonance. Ukaigwe participates in the creation of immersive audiovisual environments, foregrounding aspects of everyday life to generate connections reflecting global aesthetics.

Ukaigwe approaches his practice through influences ranging from experimental music and literature, to history and futurisms. His work is a way of annotating, augmenting, defacing, transposing, and rewriting in the margins of history. His paintings, installations, and video works also attempt to collapse the subject-object divide, while mapping out new and revised sociographies. Ukaigwe’s social practice centres around splintered or shared authorship, community input, fracturing time, and relativity. He holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and has taken part in exhibitions artist residencies both in Canada and abroad. He is also a founding member of the curatorial group, Patterns Collective.

Documentation by National Gallery of Canada.