Niquu Eyeta

Niquu is an interdisciplinary artist working with textiles, ceramics, paintings and natural pigments. Their practice is rooted in material processes that unfold slowly, emphasizing transformation, decay and sensorial experience. Through these methods, they explore themes of impermanence, ritual and relationality, engaging with the porous boundaries between body, memory, and landscape.

Artist Statement

"My practice moves through natural dyes, clay and fabric, working with materials as living carriers of memory and relation. I am drawn to the processes of decay and becoming, life and death where forms shift between the human and the more-than-human. The work unfolds slowly, through dyeing, molding, listening and responding.

I am drawn to states of transition, where forms blur, dissolve, or refuse to settle. The works are spaces where stories move between the personal and collective. I understand material as an active agent; something that moves, resists and holds traces of care, violence, intimacy and time. My installations and works often appear in a state of transition of dissolution. In my work I like to invite a bodily encounter that exceeds the visual, whether it be through scent, touch, taste and sound.

Ritual underlies both my process and the sharing of the work. I am interested in how the personal becomes a site of relation, how we come into being with others, human and more-than-human."