By Chinezim Moghalu Chibuike Uzoma , " Untitled", from the series, "No Victor, No Vanquished, 2018. “No Victor, No Vanquished”, part of the ongoing 9 th edition of Lagos Photo Festival exhibition, is a body of work by Chibuike Uzoma, which forms part of his ongoing project titled “Museum of Burnt Things”. It is an ambitious and laborious project that reconciles photography with painting in a close-up intertwined sequence. This is the second part of a three part project, which is showing at the yearly festival in Lagos, presently. The work takes a departure from the term “no victor, no vanquished” , an assertion by Major Yakubu Gowon, who was the head of state during the devastating and violent Nigerian-Biafra civil war that began after seven years of Nigeria’s independence from the British and lasted for three years (1967-1970). This was a statement he made at the end of the war which indicated that there was no victor nor vanquished during such w...
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