Chukwudubem Ukaigwe Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge

Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge is an exhibition organized around the question of containment: what things carry, what they cannot, and what leaks through regardless.

The exhibition explores the feeling of being overwhelmed by too much at once—too much history, too much city, too much sound, too much knowing. It presents a fragment, a cross-section, and the part that spills over.

Ukaigwe works across paint, ceramics, sound, video, and printmaking, treating making itself as a form of listening.

Ceramic vessels sit at the centre of the exhibition. They 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. 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.