ALMA | LEWIS 2022 Artist in Residence Tunde Wey’s Hard To Swallow Premieres at Cannes Film Festival
APRIL 8 2024
Tunde Wey
Season 1 | World Premiere | Cannes
Hard To Swallow is a poetic food show chronicling the life and perspective of Nigerian chef / writer Tunde Wey. Essayistic and experimental, the series recounts Wey’s explosive career while building a critique of the social structures that disenfranchise Black peoples globally. The 6-part docuseries premiered at CANNESERIES and SeriesFest in the spring of 2024 and will be released in 2025.
Tunde Wey is a social practice artist living between Nigeria and the United States. Working at the intersection of capital and the political economy, Wey’s work engages material hierarchies and disparities, focusing particularly on how economics and finance impact working class Black people globally. He uses food, writing, film, performance, installation and finance to confront these disparities and attempts interventions in the same mediums.
Photo Caption: Tunde Wey, Hard to Swallow Premiere, Cannes Film Festival. Photo courtesy of the artist.