Galerie Gomis presents ‘New Suns’ by David Ụzọchukwu, curated by Ekow Eshun, in collaboration with Sheriff Gallery Paris
Galerie Gomis kicks off its residency at Sheriff Gallery in Paris with the exhibition ‘New Suns’ by artist David Ụzọchukwu, curated by Ekow Eshun. Ụzọchukwu also spoke at the ASVOFF Fashion Film Festival at Dover Street Market in Paris on 9 November.
The exhibition presents photographs by the celebrated artist that embed Black figures within striking, at times haunting natural landscapes – from charred forests and midnight seas to saffron-hued deserts. These surreal works reflect the historical marginalization of people of color in narratives about nature, in which it is often portrayed as an untouched wilderness to be conquered by settlers and adventurers.
Intimate yet apocalyptic in tone, the works also evoke the impacts of climate change, highlighting its disproportionate effects on the Global South. Through this reinterpretation of the relationship between Black identity and nature, the artist presents speculative visions of coexistence and renewal.
“I’m glad to dedicate space to envisioning new shades of Blackness and symbiotic ways of being in the world,” says Ụzọchukwu. “David brings the speculative and the fantastic to life with thrilling veracity and immediacy,” says Eshun. “New Suns” conjures exhilarating states of Black being, Black possibility, and Black dreaming, visions that only an artist of David’s accomplishment could successfully realize.”
David Ụzọchukwu is a photographer whose work explores themes of identity, history, and a reimagined relationship between Black people and nature. He draws inspiration from Afrofuturist ideas that envision a hopeful and transformative future.
Ekow Eshun is a renowned curator, writer, and presenter, known for his pioneering contributions to British culture and international creative industries. As the first Black editor of Arena Magazine and the first Black director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, his work comprises exhibitions, literature, and public art, including his recent acclaimed curation of ‘In the Black Fantastic’ at the Hayward Gallery and ‘The Time Is Always Now’ at the National Portrait Gallery.
‘NEW SUNS’ Photographs by David Ụzọchukwu, curated by Ekow Eshun
Exhibition by Galerie Gomis, in collaboration with Sheriff Gallery
7 November 2024 – 11 January 2025
53 Rue de Turenne, Paris
David Ụzọchukwu in conversation with Janine Gaëlle Dieudji, curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, at the ASVOFF Film Festival, supported by Ere Collective.
Friday, 8 November 8:00 - 9:00 pm
Dover Street Market
35-37 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, level -2, 75003 Paris
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