Vida Madighi-Oghu (b.200) is a Nigerian-born, Cape Town-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of storytelling, material culture, and historical memory. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2022 and earned an Honours degree from the Centre for Curating the Archive in 2024. Madighi-Oghu describes herself as a storyteller with a research-first approach, drawing deeply from her Nigerian heritage and multicultural upbringing across Nigeria, Angola, and South Africa. Her work engages themes such as language, traditional wear, historical objects, and migration—treating them not just as subjects, but as evolving systems of knowledge and identity.

Colour plays a central role in her visual language, used not only for aesthetic effect but as a conceptual tool to illustrate movement, invisible phenomena, and the complexity of visual translation. In her practice, fabric and clay become carriers of memory and resistance; she often references traditional textiles like ankara and integrates ideographic symbols such as Nsibidi to explore how visual forms encode meaning across time and cultures. Through both her art-making and curatorial work, Madighi-Oghu seeks to weave connections between cultural production and broader socio-geopolitical historical narratives—especially those embedded in language, textiles, and material archives. Her work invites viewers into layered, speculative spaces where translation, visibility, and heritage intersect.