The National Museum of African Art’s exhibition “I Am…Contemporary Women Artists of Africa” offers viewers the opportunity to see 'African experiences in a more intimate and global context,' now through summer 2020.
” presents the works of 27 women artists from 10 African nations addressing issues including the environment, identity, race, sexuality, social activism and faith.
Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye’s “Liberal Women Protest I and II” is an homage to traditional tribal use of textiles. She portrays women in their finest attire engaged in nonviolent forms of protest against a backdrop of the historical textile art of Using Dupon silk and synthetic thread to unite the idea of sewing as a matter of identity, Billie Zangewa created “Constant Gardener” from luminous material.
In portraiture, Toyin Odutola—“motivated to test and unsettle binaries like male and female, black and white, self and represented-self”—goes beyond the surface in her ballpoint pen ink on paper “Untitled ,” while Zanele Muholi’s “Pam Dlungwana, Vredhoek, Cape Town” is a black and white photograph of woman who looks directly at the viewer, providing global recognition, respect and validation for South African lesbians.2011, ed. 2/8, silver gelatin print. Gift of Diane and Charles Frankel.
Quirky and elegant, one red aluminum kitchen pot with a carved out map of the world is ready to boil over. The politically charged work—”Untitled,” by Batoul S’Himi—is from the series World Under Pressure.Some objects weren’t created, but instead transformed into art. Frances Goodman’s wall hanging “Skin on Skin” is created from a cascade of faux pearls strewn across old black leather seat of a car, left-overs of a romantic encounter.
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