Nnebe, Kosisochukwu | Critical Distance Centre for Curators

Kosisochukwu Nnebe

Kosisochukwu Nnebe is a Nigerian-born conceptual artist and writer. Working across installation, lens-based media and sculpture, Nnebe engages with topics ranging from the politics of Black visibility, embodiment and spatiality to the use of foodways and language as counter-archives of colonial histories. Nnebe’s work has been shown in exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She recently participated in a residency with Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) at El Espacio 23, a contemporary art space founded by Jorge M. Perez in Miami; is the recipient of the 2023 G.A.S. Fellowship started by Yinka Shonibare in Lagos, Nigeria; and was one of two inaugural artists for NLS Kingston’s Sustainable Sculpture Residency in Maroon Town, Jamaica. In 2025, she will be among a small cohort of artists, designers, researchers, architects and curators participating in a year-long residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands.

Links

Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s website

EXHIBITION: Burnt Sugar

September 27, 2024 - November 16, 2024

Critical Distance is pleased to present Burnt Sugar, curated by noted author francesca ekwuyasi and featuring new and recent works by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Shaya Ishaq, Bushra Junaid, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, and Oluseye. Drawing upon the artists’ longstanding engagement with themes of migration, identity, Blackness, and diaspora, Burnt Sugar explores the inextricable connections between labour, extraction and sugar production including the transatlantic slave trade and its afterlives.

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Gallery

A framed black and white photographic diptych depicting a black woman using a mortar and pestle, captioned “LEAVE TO DRY, CRUSH” in bold black text.

A series of 6 framed black-and-white photographic diptychs, installed vertically in the corner of a white wall, show a black woman processing cassava, with captions in bold black text.

A framed black and white photographic diptych depicting a black woman holding processed cassava powder, captioned “LOAD” in bold black text.

A blue candy machine containing layers of sugar stands in a gallery between wooden pillars, a series of six black and white framed photographs is to the left and a series of three framed photos is to the right.