Artist Tschabalala Self stitches together influences from Baroque art to the corner bodega, creating work that upends how we depict, and think about, the female body.
, is an important aspect of her work.
and features entwined figures made up of a collage of stitched-together fabrics. Laundry baskets filled with scraps, some of them rescued from her childhood home, are everywhere in the fifth-floor workspace, and her sewing machine is front and center—a crucial component of her art. “Her expressive use of sewing introduced a lot of new elements into the language of figurative painting,” says Ellen Tani, who curated a show of Self’s work at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Born in Harlem in 1990, Self was the youngest of five children. Her father taught high school English, and her mother ran a vocational training program at Bronx Community College. When she was around 13, her parents divorced, but they remained friends, and for the next five years or so her dad lived across the street. All the siblings were given unusual names: Sayida , Kolikwe , Ramogi , Princetta , and Tschabalala ; her friends call her “Tschaba.
In Self’s first semester, her mother died suddenly. “My mother was never sick,” she tells me. “It felt like she just left, and that was the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” The siblings inherited their mother’s Harlem brownstone, and they have managed to hold on to it ever since. Self wanted to take the year off, but her siblings persuaded her to go back immediately to Yale.
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