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Onyeka Igwe: history is a living weapon in yr hand

A film still featuring a woman in front of a wood panel room.
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Bonington Gallery presents a solo exhibition by London based artist Onyeka Igwe, centred around experimental film, A Radical Duet.

  • From: Saturday 13 January 2024, 10 am
  • To: Saturday 2 March 2024, 3 pm
  • Location: Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GG
  • Cost: Free
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history is a living weapon in yr hand is a solo exhibition of new and reconfigured work by London based artist Onyeka Igwe.

The exhibition will be centred around a new two-screen adaptation of Igwe’s dual timeline experimental film A Radical Duet (2023). The film imagines what happened when two women of different generations, but both part of the post-war independence movement, came together in London to put their fervour and imagination into writing a revolutionary play. The film depicts this process, and envisages what that play would look like, if staged today.

The film will be accompanied by elements of the set design and props from the making of A Radical Duet, taking inspiration from Sylvia Wynter’s ideas on theatrical adaptation. Wynter builds on Brechtian principles of modern epic theatre and advises on how set design can support a theatre to ‘explode [social] fears by bringing them out into the light of day’.

Exhibition Launch

Save the date for our launch night on Friday 12 January, 6 pm – 8 pm for a first look round the exhibition.

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Bonington Gallery
Bonington Building
Dryden Street
 Nottingham
 NG1 4GG

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