Fex Orumwense

I am an artist filmmaker whose work focuses on visual story telling with themes surrounding memory, identity, representation and emotion. My MA piece ("Crotch Grab" and "Game Sofa") is based on two core memories from my childhood, focusing on misunderstanding and imitating gender related gestures. 

Crotch Grab is based on my primary school days watching older guys at my school grabbing their crotch, as a kid I thought it was cool and imitated that behaviour but I got scolded for it without being told why it was wrong.

Game sofa focuses on unintentionally watching the imitating the sitting positions of the males in my family. Being a girl growing up in Nigeria I was often reproached for sitting like them but I didn’t understand why till I grew up (and through about it).