Ibiye is a British Nigerian multidisciplinary artist. Her work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilises architectural tools to create sound and video, textiles, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases and conflicts inherent to technology and postcolonial subjects. Her past projects in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ethiopia investigated the dynamics of technology as a means to explore the glitches and tensions between digital infrastructure and the landscape.

Ibiye Camp holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, and BA (Hons) in Fine Art, from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. Ibiye’s Thesis project titled Data: The New Black Gold was awarded the School of Architectures Dean’s Prize and was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal Award.

Ibiye previously tutored at the Royal College of Art in the School of Architecture from 2020-2023. She tutored in Media Studies and Architecture Design Studio 2 with Dele Adeyemo and Dámaso Randulfe.

Ibiye co-founded Xcessive Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary design collective exploring data through immersive technologies and public installations. With Co-Tutors Rhiarna Dhaliwal and Emmy Bacharach, Ibiye runs a BA Studio titled Digital Native at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Ibiye’s artwork has been presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016), the Porto Design Biennale (2019) Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019), Triennale Milano (2020), 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020) and 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), ICA (2022), Deptford X London (2022)The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, (2023).

Stems and Roots
2024

Stems and Roots conducts an investigation into the Cotton Tree of Freetown, Sierra Leone, a site deeply embedded with narratives of freedom, resilience, and postcolonial complexity. The Cotton Tree's historical significance was established in 1792 when emancipated African Americans congregated beneath it, rendering it a pivotal locus of collective memory and identity formation. After centuries of withstanding natural and socio-political forces, the tree sustained critical damage during a 2023 storm. Utilising Point Cloud software and social media archives, the project reconstructs the tree's temporal states, mapping its transformation into a contested site of historical, cultural, and political resonance.

Credits:
Interviews with James Matthew and Timothy Sydney

For the second edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion, iniva presents Unseen Guests: a series of commissions of eight artists based in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), working across new media, audiovisual and writing to create new works in dialogue with the work of filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, representing Great Britain at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale

The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is an evolving visual arts organisation dedicated to nurturing and disseminating radical and emergent decolonising and unlearning practices centring Global Majority, Indigenous, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx & Diaspora perspectives that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation.

The Pavilion is a series of radical re-imaginings of nationhood, reflecting on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities.

The project is supported by British Council.

Unseen Guests is curated by Beatriz Lobo Britto and Renée Akitelek Mboya, and produced by Leanne Petersen.

Artists developing new works include ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock, Yaa Addae, Alexis G Teyie and Helena Uambembe.

Unseen Guest Project Team

Sepake Angiama - iniva Artistic Director
Beatriz Lobo - UK Curator
Renée Akitelek Mboya - SSA Curator
Leanne Petersen - Project Producer
Rodrigo Nava Ramirez - Web Development and Design

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