{"id":8330,"date":"2026-07-06T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:51:59","slug":"victoria-idongesit-udondian-at-the-61st-venice-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/victoria-idongesit-udondian-at-the-61st-venice-biennale\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria-Idongesit Udondian at the 61st Venice Biennale."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-492700c48326be81d0aa197f04586cdf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Former Sacatar Fellow Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (Nigeria\/USA, Visual Arts, 2018) is participating in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with <em>Obroni Wawu<\/em> (<em>Dead White Man\u2019s Clothes<\/em>), a site-specific installation on view from May 6 to November 22, 2026. Curated by Koyo Kouoh, the work combines textiles, audio, and performance to examine the global circulation of secondhand clothing and textile waste, exposing the environmental and social consequences of Western consumerism for African communities. Bringing together elements from her long-term projects <em>Ofong Ufok<\/em> and <em>Okrika Reclaimed<\/em>, the installation foregrounds the labor of immigrant communities and the impact of waste colonialism in Ghana. Through performance and multimedia elements, <em>Obroni Wawu<\/em> reframes sites of exploitation as spaces of resilience, resistance, and collective renewal.<br>Her work is located at the Giadino delle Vergini in Venice, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sacatar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Victoria-Udondian2.jpg 2019w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Title: &#8216;Obroni Wawu&#8217; (Dead white man&#8217;s clothes), Year: 2019-2026, Medium: Site-specific installation comprising textile, audio, and performance activations, Dimension variable, Image credit: Nicola Rigo; Installation at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sacatar Fellow Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (Nigeria\/USA, Visual Arts, 2018) is participating in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellows-achievements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}