Postcards for Strangers

This exhibition marks a pivotal moment in Uzor’s career as he peels back layers of himself with a new and raw vulnerability, both personally and artistically. Defying the onus upon artists to only show perfected and “finished” work, Uzor resists the inclination to create what is “pretty”. Eschewing his technical background as a painter, he instead works in what he describes as an “exhausting and therapeutic” state of searching, one in which landscapes from memory, dreams, and imagination take shape on the canvas, emerging slowly over time. These landscapes are not meant to represent a real physical place, but instead to capture and evoke a psychological space—one where the artist, and by extension the viewer, confronts feelings of displacement and identity.