Uche Okpa-Iroha presented his award-winning series The Plantation Boy, a multilayered project that collectively examines the relationship between the history of Western cinema and the media dynamics of race. Okpa-Iroha meticulously inserts himself in the frame of the image, through strategies of reconstruction and reenactment. He intervenes in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 movie, The Godfather, by isolating and appropriating forty original film stills from the seminal movie.
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