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Nya Lewis

Nya Lewis’s hybrid interdisciplinary practice is a culmination of centuries of resistance, questions, and actions rooted in the theorization of Black cultural production. She is an MFA candidate, the year-round programmer at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, a Research Assistant at the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora, and an independent curator currently serving as Guest Curator at UBC Museum of Anthropology and grunt gallery.

Artist Project

Issue 151

an inheritance by Kosisochukwu Nnebe: Text

byNya Lewis

Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s photographs depict the historic use of cassava as a poison wielded by African-descended and Indigenous people living in the Caribbean. In the accompanying text, guest curator Nya Lewis explores how Nnebe’s images reclaim “Black emotional subjectivity” by “constructively defying Black victimization and passivity.”