Chinedu Victor | Debut Solo Exhibition
“Memories of an Undocumented Past”
March 9 -27, 2026 | DFN Projects NYC

To RSVP, Contact: John Wesley
Email: info@ctlg.art

Opening Reception: March 11, 6pm – 8pm
41 East 57^th Street, Suite 1103, New York, NY 10022

Collectors Preview: March 9 and 10
Hours will be announced soon.

DFN Projects is pleased to present Memories of an Undocumented Past, the debut solo exhibition by Chinedu Victor, curated by global art dealer John Wesley. The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings that consider childhood as an active and imaginative construction, not as a fixed historical record. Raised in Nigeria with few surviving photographs from his early life, Victor approaches painting as an act of filling emotional and visual gaps left by an absent physical or digital archive. Instead of pursuing documentary precision, these portraits prioritize emotional truth.

In this exhibition, memory is not seen as a permanent archive, but as something actively shaped, revised, and sustained through paint. Victor presents imagined reconstructions of formative moments, shaped from an interior perspective. Some paintings emerge from personal recollection, while others function symbolically, representing sensations, atmospheres, and emotional states that resist clear narration.

His use of vibrant color, dense texture, and commanding scale underscores the tension between what is remembered and what must be imagined, positioning painting as both authorship and evidence. Memories of an Undocumented Past
ultimately asserts the restorative power of imagination.

By allowing truth and fiction to coexist, Victor reclaims a sense of self that might otherwise remain unarticulated. The exhibition proposes memory not as a fragile remnant of the past, but as a living creative force—one capable of preserving identity through feeling when documentation fails.