I’ve been thinking a lot about space recently. Not the endless cosmos, the scope and size of which seem unfathomable. No, I talk here of space in a far smaller, if not more pertinent sense – the spaces in which we move, we choose to occupy and find comfort in. Here, we come across a…
*Dear reader please note that this piece is a collage — in words — of still forming thoughts and provocations “But the war goes on; and we will have to bind up for years to come the many, sometimes ineffaceable wounds that the colonialist onslaught has inflicted on our people. That imperialism which today is…
Felix Shumba is a self-taught visual artist from Masvingo in Zimbabwe. In this conversation with Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, Shumba, whose multidisciplinary practices includes figurative drawing and painting, poetry and performance art, talks about his background, his biggest influences and the obstacles he has encountered as an immigrant in South Africa. Let us start with where…
Kenyan-born artist Wanja Kimani has a visual practice that strings together stories and visual histories which comment on the idea of home, displacement, trauma, memories and imaginations. While imposing elements of her own life in public spaces, she occupies the positions of both narrator and character. This is evident in the various media she uses to…
Alexis Peskine is an internationally renowned artist attracting a lot of attention for his incredible large-scale portraits of powerful black figures intricately rendered by hammering nails into wooden boards (what has now been coined as acupainture). Coming from a mixed heritage, he uses his art to make comments on identity and race within a global…
