Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
Moni Omubor
Moni Omubor (b. 1998, Lagos, Nigeria) is a visual artist and designer based in Lethbridge, Alberta. She works with computer generated 3D graphics in consortium with photography to explore the interconnectedness between black diasporic realities and postcolonial Nigerian identity. At the centre of her new media practice is the exploration of speculative fiction and virtual worldbuilding to not only question or document these realities but to also actively reconstruct them by learning from the records of where we’ve been, examining the absurdities of where we are and pulling from the possibilities of where we might go. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture, an MFA in New Media from the University of Lethbridge and is a member of the Lethbridge based black art collective, We’re Here Too.