Strongly, We Believe In the Power of this Motile Thing That Will Take Us There

From the art-photographic works from the BC1: NIGER-DELTA/FUTURE-COSMOS. A series addressing historical and contemporary socio-environmental issues in the impoverished oil-rich Niger Delta, my birthplace in Southern Nigeria. The staged photographs, produced with the participation of local subjects, employ performance and visual storytelling to create poetic reflections on cosmological paradigms, regional myths and real-life experiences to envision a speculative dimension of the Niger Delta,” says Wilfred Ukpong of this work. Wilfred is an interdisciplinary artist working out of the UK, France and Nigeria. Wilfred’s work tackles spiritualism, capitalism, climate justice, Black feminism, Afro-futurism and post-colonial image.