2026
ADP: Hey Nduka, what art world advice would you give to your younger self?
NI: To my young self
Dear me, You are capable and more. Remain focused on that lane you trust. Be open to learning.
Biography
My practice draws on Igbo cultural philosophy and the socio-economic structures of my environment to examine systems of labor, value, and aspiration. Working with stripe belts, everyday tools used for tying, fastening, and dragging I weave and sew them into dense, tapestry-like sculptural forms. The works reference Igbo ideologies such as ịgba boi (the Igbo apprenticeship system), Akụluonọ (bringing wealth home), and Ogbuefi, a title denoting economic and social attainment. In these contexts, labor functions as both economic pursuit and communal obligation. Recontextualized as sculpture, the strap belt becomes a metaphor for connectivity and constraint binding individuals to networks of ambition, commerce, and inherited expectation in contemporary southeastern Nigeria.
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