Lighthouse, 2023 Sanctuary globe and candle, black volcanic sand. Dimensions variable Photo: Madalina Zaharia. Courtesy the artist
Unyimeabasi Udoh’s practice centres on legibility, the void, and the construction of meaning. Their art is largely one of appropriation and reproduction, with language as its primary material. Working across media including print, drawing, installation, and sculpture, they explore how systems—of communication, of knowledge, of beauty, of control—are built and maintained. Their interest in surface, opacity, and absence often manifests in pared-back works which destabilise expected correspondences between form and content. Udoh aims to reveal, through strategic withholding, the absurdity of the world we live in and the structures that support it.