Ufuoma Essi (b.1995) is a video artist and filmmaker. She works primarily with small gauge film, moving image, installation and sound. Her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories. Recent Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), CNAC Magasin, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Public Gallery, Gasworks, and South London Gallery.
Essi’s films have been screened and exhibited widely at film festivals, institutions and galleries, including, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Lisson Gallery, Criterion Collection, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Chicago International Film Festival, LUX, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, GAMeC Bergamo, Towner Eastbourne and Black Star Film Festival.
Onyeka Igwe is a London-based moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? She pulls apart the nuances of mutuality, co-existence and multiplicity. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. For her, the body, archives and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. She has had solo/duo shows at Tate Britain, London (2025), MoMA PS1, New York (2023); High Line, New York (2022); Mercer Union, Toronto (2021); Jerwood Arts, London (2019) and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Rockbund Art Museum (2025), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (all 2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery, London; (2023). Onyeka was the joint recipient of the 2025 Film London Jarman Award.
Tendai Mutambu is a writer, curator, and film programmer based in London and Barcelona. His work centres on contemporary artists’ moving image and the essay film, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and diasporic practices.
He is a programmer for European Media Arts Festival and was recently Development Editing Fellow at Logic(s), a queer Black and Asian technology magazine at Columbia University’s INCITE Institute, and an associate producer of Aura Satz’s feature-length documentary Preemptive Listening (2024).
Previously, Tendai held curatorial and public programming roles at Spike Island, Bristol, where he contributed to projects and events by Peggy Ahwesh, Gail Lewis, Zinzi Minott, Imran Perretta, and Denise Ferreira da Silva; LUX Moving Image, where he curated touring programmes presented in over fifteen countries; Te Uru, Govett-Brewster/Len Lye Centre, CIRCUIT Artists Moving Image, Artspace Aotearoa, the London Film Festival, and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.
Tendai has curated solo presentations by Tanoa Sasraku (Spain, 2025), Ufuoma Essi (NZ, 2023), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Ireland, 2022), Marwa Arsanios (UK, 2019), and Sriwhana Spong (NZ, 2018). He is a contributing editor at Ocula Magazine and a regular contributor to Art Monthly UK and ArtReview.
