Chukwudubem Ukaigwe Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge

Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge explores containment—what things carry, what they cannot, and what leaks through regardless. A deluge is the feeling of being overwhelmed by too much at once: too much history, too much city, too much sound, too much knowing. This exhibition is a fragment of that feeling, a cross-section of the part that spills over.

Ukaigwe works across paint, ceramics, sound, video, and printmaking, treating making itself as a form of listening. The ceramic vessels at the centre of the exhibition were built by stacking bowl on top of bowl, adhered together with clay slip. Their surfaces swell and crack open, and cone shapes burst from their rims like interrupted speech.

They are shaped the way communities are shaped: by pressure, by accumulation, by the decision to keep building on top of and around each other.