Uche James-Iroha shows work at the Omenka Gallery in Lagos from 8 until November 22.
About:
Born 1972, Enuga, Nigeria.
Uche studied sculpture at the University of port Harcourt art school in Nigeria, graduating with honors, and started taking photographs in 1996. He works closely with a network of likeminded photographers and painters working to promote photography and to improve the perception of photographers and photography in Nigeria. Lagos, just like any major City, provides a huge whirlpool of elements to explore, and in that sense Uche tries photographically to harness the strict organizational discipline beneath the visual chaos that greets any onlooker.
The work leads Uche to construct or set up performances that are captured still; the artist employ text and use of graphics on image surfaces to find a sculptural accent in his work, in the attempt to address certain issues both socially and generally.
With regards to technique, Uche’s approach is largely construction and deconstruction of the visual plane: trying to find the relationship and the workability between two and three dimensional design.
Uche is currently a director at photo. Garage, a company that provides logistics as well as offers an indigenous platform for domestic and global intellectual photography exchanges. His exhibitions have been
shown globally.
