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Onyeka Igwe’s anticolonial kinetics

By Onyeka Igwe // Staff Picks: July 2023

By Onyeka Igwe // Staff Picks: July 2023

“PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, hold, and pause,” a voice-over evenly calls out as monochrome footage rapidly intercuts between a black woman alone on a stretch of grass—arms out and angular, the top of her body pulling toward the ground and her legs partially bent—and stick-figure notations of her dance. Minutes later, a clip of women swirling the voluminous white clothes tied at their waists unfolds, instead, at a mesmerizing and unsettling molasses pace. This archival footage is punctuat...

Artist Onyeka Igwe's three films inspired by the Aba Women’s War of 1929, are now on display at MoMa PS1 in Queens, New York.