Films, artworks, and readings of satirical literature introduce Carole Enahoro’s rarely shown triple-screen film, Oyinbo Pepper (1986).
Using archival footage and photographs from Nigeria and the UK, the film explores the experience of being mixed race. It concludes by shedding light on concealed systems that exploit the ongoing displacement and redirection, pushing individuals in need away from supportive networks and towards trauma and suffering.
The screening is accompanied by an introduction and Q&A with Enahoro and author and educator, Dr Bunmi Oyinsan.
In the artist's words
"Oyinbo Pepper is a triple screen film on uprootedness, in an instance where the navigation between safety and danger has been disrupted. It starts with the dismantling of the famous myth of Narcissus to demonstrate how the narcissistic network operates – intimate or global – and reveals how Narcissus became the scapegoat for the entire system, hiding the true source of covert and intolerant power. The resemblance between familial and institutional narcissism continues through a presentation of art, literature, film, and theory, involving discussions with feminists, psychologists, and Africanists, as well as interviews with women artists in Nigeria who have used the power of the collective as a means of combat. Finally, the psychological impact of such trauma is explored, and key concepts that reveal how victims of such abuse can be perpetually re-targeted."