Exhibitions
DAVID UZOCHUKWU: BODIES OF WATER
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art / 1934 Poplar Ave. June 10, 2026 - September 27, 2026
David Uzochukwu
David Uzochukwu: Bodies of Water is a poetic meditation on identity, migration, and belonging. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo museum show, introducing audiences to his visionary photographic practice. Drawing on mythology, fantasy, and personal and collective histories, Uzochukwu presents hybrid beings—part human, part animal—who inhabit surreal, dreamlike landscapes. Adorned with fins, scales, and other features, these figures are equipped to thrive in challenging waters. The resulting images evoke the adaptability and resilience of diasporic communities navigating environments often marked by hostility and exclusion. Within these imagined worlds, Blackness resists simple definition: it is fluid, shifting, and vibrantly alive.
David Uzochukwu is a Berlin-based artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose work explores
identity, cultural memory, and history. His images have appeared in the British Journal of Photography, i-D, Dazed, and have been exhibited at Saatchi Gallery (London), Fotografiska (New York and Shanghai), and Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), among other institutions. His photographs are held in public collections including Collection Pictet (Switzerland), Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis (Senegal), and The Wedge Collection (Canada). A 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Uzochukwu has directed films such as Götterdämmerung (2020) and Civil Dusk (2021), and episodes of Black Fruit, which premiered in 2024 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bodies of Water is his debut solo museum exhibition.
Image: David Uzochukwu, Gurgle, 2020. Archival inkjet print, 40 x 60 in. Courtesy of the artist. © 2025 David Uzochukwu. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Gomis.
