The paintings far from being detached from the prevailing realities of a greater society are instead a facet of it. My intention is for these paintings to encapsulate the prevailing realities and also serve as a place of connecting to the experiences of others.
My Life Untitled
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
We are Parlor Soldiers
The paintings far from being detached from the prevailing realities of a greater society are instead a facet of it. My intention is for these paintings to encapsulate the prevailing realities and also serve as a place of connecting to the experiences of others.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Gallery Artist 24
Contours of Memory
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Sharjah Architecture Triennial. The Beauty Of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability
Honoured and delighted to be participating at the Sharjah Triennial 2023, "The Beauty of Impermanence" An Architecture of Adaptability with cave bureau, a Nairobi based bureau of architects and researchers charting explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature. whose work addresses the anthropological and geological context of the postcolonial African city as a means to confront the challenges of our contemporary rural and urban lives.
In this triennial, the ninth installment of Cave Bureau’s ( Anthropocene Museum 9.0 ) research series constitutes the adaptation and tour of Sharjah’s old slaughterhouse, whose primary protagonists are the animals —cows, goats, sheep, and camels — consumed in the city; often without thought of their origins or how they are processed. The audience is corralled through an ever-present, but seldom reflected upon municipal event space, in a building that is now only intermittently used.
The work I've presented at the old Sharjah slaughterhouse with cave bureau explores our humanity. The forms are stripped of flesh as a metaphor for how skin often informs stereotypes and the idea of exposed flesh, ribcages, raw, and bloody the grotesque is to explore a time in decline. The vulnerable form, in this exposure is a reflection of how we contend with our own intimate nature the forms which are dissected become ambiguous, abstracted, free to move unencumbered beyond the frame. This internal structure with its endless possibilities, its transient nature is a point of reference in my work as an observation of our shared experiences. The work is inspired by a concatenation of events, (human) events, leading to the exploration of our bodies in a space and time of change; interrogating encounters within our individual states and the dysfunctionality rooted in our social structures, the intensity of these times as a consequence of this, our humanity has now come face to face with the fall out resulting from these fragmented systems.
At the core of the exhibit lies the philosophical underpinning of meaningful impermanence. In life, only death is certain, everything else is in flux. Visitors are encouraged to view the ever-shifting built landscape of life as an opportunity for reversed notions of growth, through introspection, and spiritual reconnection. It asks one to accept the need to adapt through a new planetary consciousness, that embraces meaningful impermanence without us building almost anything at all.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Past is Prologue II (Three Centuries of African Art)
The work in this exhibition is a juxtaposition of classical African art and Contemporary African art. Classical African art is profoundly integral to the society from which it sprung and a significant component of the communal, spiritual, and political structures of the many numerous and distinct cultures that produce it. From intricately carved masks to powerful wooden power statuary they provide a visual language through which these societies communicated not just with each other but also with the spiritual realm and the natural world around them.
My work explores the Contemporary perspective ; the paintings examining the specificity of our encounters as women which tend to be either marginalised or subsumed within patriarchal narratives steeped in culture. Constantly navigating dynamics within society the work looks to reflect ourselves back to ourselves and open dialogues. The paintings submitted in this exhibition are from the “Savages” and the “Strait Jacket series” challenging the narratives of self, place, and purpose.
The exhibition concludes June 30.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Transient Beings
The exhibition will open on May 18th and run till 11 June. Read more on the exhibition here