Victoria-Idongesit Udondian: How Can I Be Nobody - Hardcover

by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Editor), Rachel Vera Steinberg (Introduction by), Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Memoir by)

Contemporary textile, photography, and installation art by Victoria-Idongesit Udondian.

Victoria-Idongesit Udondian is a contemporary artist whose work is driven by an interest in textiles and the potential for clothing to shape identity. She explores creativity, culture, and memory in everyday materials through the histories and tacit meanings embedded in contemporary textiles. Udondian uses this conceptual framework to create interdisciplinary projects that question notions of cultural identity and post-colonial positions in relation to her experiences growing up in Nigeria, and her America-based transnational art practice. Her artworks examine the complexities of migration and racial and cultural identity in the global context. How Can I Be Nobody is the first publication to document and contextualize Udondian's creative interrogation of textiles and shifting cultural identities within a global trade system, characterized by the movement of goods and people from one part of the world to the other.

Author Biography

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of California Santa Barbara.