Chukwunelo Eva Chisom is a Nigerian storyteller, visual archivist working on disability and culture. Her work centers archival justice, visibility, and the creative economy. At the moment, she’s working on her project titled, The Body as Canvas, an evolving cultural project that documents and archives the lived presence of people with disabilities through photography, visual narrative, and personal testimony.
Her practice is rooted in ensuring disabled bodies are not missing from history, cultural records, or public imagination. Through image-making and storytelling, she works to build visual and narrative archives that affirm disabled people as active contributors to culture rather than footnotes within it.
Eva is a public speaker and advocate whose work engages disability, assistive devices, and the creative economy. She has spoken on reframing disability narratives from a creative perspective through platforms including the British Council’s Creative Economy programme and UN Women, where she advocated for the rights and visibility of disabled women and girls.
Her work bridges art, advocacy, and cultural memory, with a focus on presence, dignity, and long-term representation.