Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, Geographies of Longing (still), 2024, single-channel video with sound, 6:11 min. Courtesy of the Artist.

Artist Talk

Opening Reception & Artist Talk | Ogheneofegor Obuwoma: geographies of longing

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Event Dates

Apr 5, 2025

Time

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

ADMISSION
Free

To celebrate the opening of geographies of longing, artist Fegor Obuwoma joins SFU Galleries Director Kimberly Phillips in conversation, plotting out a constellation of concerns that underpin the exhibition, including the relationship between photography and unknowability, body mapping as methodology, and finding stillness in the moving image. An informal reception with Nigerian snacks will follow.

Ogheneofegor Obuwoma (she/they) is a Nigerian artist, writer, and arts worker based in Vancouver on the unceded Coast Salish lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Obuwoma’s lens-based practice is grounded in traditions of care and reimagination. Utilizing concepts of Afro-diasporic futurism, their work emerges from an investigation of questions of the body and the spiritual as they relate to a nuanced state of contemporary Nigerian society and culture. Obuwoma has shown work at galleries and film festivals, and their writing has been published on Akimbo. Obuwoma graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film and Communications where they were awarded the Archambault Memorial Award in Film.

Kimberly Phillips (she/her) is Director of SFU Galleries at Simon Fraser University. Over the past two decades, in her roles as gallery director, curator, and teacher based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples, she has worked to create meaningful and unexpected ways for contemporary artists and their publics to find one another. Phillips’ curatorial practice maintains a particular interest in the spectral and the resistant, as well as the conditions under which artists work. She has curated over 60 exhibitions and public art projects, most recently as Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery (2017-2020) and Director/Curator of Access Gallery (2013-2017), and has overseen and contributed to numerous publications. Phillips holds a PhD in art history from the University of British Columbia (2007), where she was an Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Fellow.