Onwochei-Garcia, Elena Njoabuzia
b. 1996
Will Jarvis has written of her work; "Reminiscent of political murals, her work is inspired by historical research and the unreliability of the narrator. Her interest in this disjunction is inspired by the mestiza experience. The sense of never being aligned, being confronted with an unauthorised fictional self, and those conflicting moments of an existence “in-between“ reflects the reality of being mestiza. She works to enact a form of M.Lugone’s “world-travelling” to overcome forms of arrogant perception that produce ignorance about others. “By integrating psychological, literary and historical analysis, Onwochei-Garcia’s works challenge accepted truths – picking and prodding at perceived definitives – by using multiple layers of paint to blend fables and falsehoods."
