Uzo Njoku

Central to her practice is the re-contextualization of images drawn from her expanding personal archive, which she sources from films, found photographs, and online forums. The original context of these images is disrupted and imbued with new layers of meaning through selective cropping and a blurred painting technique, often paired with hyper-realistic depictions of things that play with the tension between what is within and just out of reach. This process situates her work between the archive and the altar: the archive as a repository of collective memory and imagery, and the altar as a space where these fragments are elevated into symbols of contemporary secular worship and the pursuit of something more. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.










