Munachi Kenneth Uzoigwe (b. 1999 Imo, Nigeria)

Munachi is a contemporary artist from Nigeria using charcoal as his medium. He focuses his practice on the figurative drawing and portraiture, and inherited memory, in images of the human figure, and how history continues to inform identity, belonging and human experience.

With charcoal and charcoal dust produced with traditional techniques of burning charcoal, Uzoigwe employs a restrained approach to his psychological drawings, which lie between presence and disappearance. His work tells of his own and collective past, urging viewers to consider what memories stay with them after an event.