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Uyo Mayo (There Goes My Mother) by Mulenga J Mulenga, 2017-2023, Acrylic, copper leaf, and charcoal on canvas, 43in x 31in.
This work belongs to a series that questions, navigates and explores the black female body’s quest for identity which is influenced by geographical, political, historical and cultural events. A female body is portrayed as an archive, a gathering place for memories and imaginations, and a space of mapping the future narratives of blackness in the context of continuous realities of femininity.
Mulenga J Mulenga is a multimedia visual artist who was born in 1987 in Lusaka, Zambia. She works across disciplines such as painting, sculpture, installation, drawings, Photography and performance art. In 2019, she was awarded the most outstanding Female Visual in Zambia during the National Ngoma Awards ceremony by the National Arts Council. Recently she attended a 3-month residence program at Gasworks, London and she participated in the Sanaa exhibition which is part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. She is a 2015Asikointernational School Alumni under CCA Lagos and attended the summer school of International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria in 2015. Mulenga’s works considers current and historical representations of female black bodies within the context of post-colonial Zambia, specifically the ways in which deeply rooted social roles and identities are reproduced and reinforced throughout every stage of life. Mulenga works across painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance, to revisit and reimagine old and new narratives that connect themes of gender and socio-cultural discourses within the legacy of colonialism. She has exhibited at Calabar Gallery.
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