xhi Ndubisi: Icarus: A Love Letter to a Black Monolith
Event
xhi Ndubisi: Icarus: A Love Letter to a Black Monolith
28 March 2026
2-3pm, 3-4pm
In Person at Castlefield Gallery
This is an in-person event at Castlefield Gallery
Film Screening and performance (Film by xN and James Moss, 2025).
Join us for this event programmed by Alana Lake and Deeqa Ismail to coincide with their exhibition Broken Ecologies (15 March 2026 – 19 April 2026).
xhi Ndubisi is a visual artist, writer, curator, and producer whose work explores storytelling, oral tradition, and the Black female body through performance, installation, and socially engaged practice.
Icarus: A Love Letter to a Black Monolith is a retelling of the myth of Icarus. Through story telling and film screening, Ndubisi explores the way in which she recognises the lived experience of the black and Diasporan people, and in this story, the complex phenomena of black masculinity in the story of Icarus (the boy who flew too close to the sun). Drawing from multiple myths and stories of gods, prophetic sages, princesses, monsters and labyrinths the work journeys through failure, trauma and intergenerational relationships. The event will include time to reflex and discuss issues raised with Ndubisi and other attendees.
xhi Ndubisi
xhi is a visual artist, writer, curator, and producer whose work explores storytelling, oral tradition, and the Black female body through performance, installation, and socially engaged practice.
A former NHS doctor, she has brought a unique lens of care and rigour to projects such as Dining In (The Portico Library), FEAST:PEAR (NLPG funded, The Whitaker and Longsight Art Space), and Passing Cloud (The Fourdrinier).
She is co-founder of SNUG (sustainable Northmoor by urban greening), a green-space arts initiative in Longsight collaborating with The Orchard project.
She is co-founder of Longsight Community Art Space and she sits on the board of Plas Bodfa, Anglesey.
She has worked with Quarantine theatre collective on projects including 12 Last Songs (“Perth Festival’s most powerful show.” The Guardian, 2025). Her curatorial work frequently engages with creatives, archives, libraries, and local communities.
Links
Website
Another Diasporan- Images Courtesy of xhi Ndubisi
