Berlin-based artist turns photos surreal in Brooks exhibition
David Uzochukwu's "Shoulder". 2019. (Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Gomis)
The last exhibition to open in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park is the first solo museum exhibition for David Uzochukwu.
The exhibition curator, Efe Igor Coleman, said Uzochukwu’s water-centric work excited her in part because the Brooks Museum was relocating near the Mississippi River. The Brooks Museum will become the Memphis Art Museum when the organization moves into the new Downtown space later this year.
“There was a lot of excitement thinking about the river and water in all these new ways. It also holds a very violent history, how to connect and animate and get us ready as we’re transitioning from one space to the other,” she said.
David Uzochukwu's "Bodies of Water" exhibition will be on view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art through September. Pictured left is curator Efe Igor Coleman. (Emma Meskovic/The Daily Memphian)
Uzochukwu, a Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker, has 22 photos now on view in “Bodies of Water”, which runs through Sept. 27.
Uzochukwu will be in conversation with Igor Coleman as part of the Brooks Museum’s Art and Aperitifs series. The free talk will be held 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 13.
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Elle Perry
A native Memphian, Elle Perry has earned graduate degrees from the University of Memphis and Maryland Institute College of Art. She’s written for publications including the Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Flyer and High Ground News, and previously served as coordinator of The Teen Appeal.
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