Victoria-Idongesit Udondian: How Can I Be Nobody

This is the first publication to document and contextualise Udondian's creative interrogation of textiles and shifting cultural identities within a global trade system, characterised by transnational movement of goods and people from one part of the world to the other.

Victoria-Idongesit Udondian: How Can I Be Nobody focuses on a contemporary artist whose work is driven by an interest in textiles and the potential for clothing to shape identity. Her work is informed by the histories and tacit meanings embedded in everyday materials. She uses these 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 USA-based transnational art practice.

Udondian’s artworks examine the complexities of migration and racial/cultural identity in the global context.