~A Confluence of Parts~ is on for a few more days @af_dar. This is an appreciation post for the people who made this first solo unforgettable. My Dar Art fam and friends 🥺 my art bae @justcallmesimba who I couldn’t have done this without - and Shariff & Flora at Alliance ✨ also shout out to @katebomz for the flowers 💕🌺
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Photo cred @af_dar and @ibuye_ 😘
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#exhibition#art#tanzania#installation
Excited to announce ‘BIPOC Re - Imagining Narratives’ ✨🖍
A free workshop led by artists @ardonaxela and @s_i_p_h_i_w_e in partnership with @_hospitalrooms and @hauserwirth
Join us on Saturday 27th August as we use portraiture, poetry and collage to re-imagine and create our own visual personal narrative.
We will be using historical archive photography from @bcaheritage and contemporary BIPOC characters to guide us through live drawing, spoken word and a Live Photo station.
Tickets for the workshop are FREE and are available via @_hospitalrooms eventbrite. Link in bio!
We are looking forward to seeing you all there on the last weekend of the month!
Lets fill out the room with creativity! 🖍
Siphiwe Mnguni and Valerie Asiimwe Amani
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Details: Saturday 27th August | 11am - 4pm | Hauser & Wirth London, 23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET
PMS has me by the labia and it’s not fun.
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Maybe I’ll make postcards about this .
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Is PMS killing your vibe too?
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Take care of yourselves kids
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#body#pms#digitalart#period
The first time I went to Kariakoo was with one of my Mama Mkubwas - I remember clasping at her skirt as we weaved through people trying to find jewellery for my confirmation (🥲) For people who didn’t frequent this vibrant district - it was mysterious or just confusing. People would say it’s dangerous- chaotic etc etc. but when I moved back to Dar it was the best place to buy fabric and anything else I needed to be able to create. There was a time I would go to Kariakoo at least 3 times a week. One thing I love about Tanzanians in general is that we help strangers - and even though my Swahili sometimes got questioned (the struggle continues) I never once felt unsafe - or lost because someone always took the time to talk to me and now I know this place like the back of my hand. It was sad going back recently and seeing the main building closed off, knowing how many lives the fire affected. Capturing this history and learning about the art that once covered it’s facade was an honour - Revisit Kariakoo in @thearchitecturalreview Public issue - can’t wait for our full view of the monumental market building to be restored
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Slide 1&2 : Photos taken in 2011 by @benediktredmann
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Slide 3: photo taken in 2017 cc. IGC
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#writing#kariakoo#tanzania#market#africanmarket#architecture#history#art
Building worlds. Testing I. Pressure, release, sanded, revealed and renewed. Stitched wounded horizon - foresight.
Studio stuff [May ‘22]
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I don’t ever want to stop making. Sometimes it doesn’t feel right and all you do is make a mess. but the moments it doesn’t feel like mess feels like more language, more ways to speak. So we continue ✨
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#art#artwork#sculpture#collage#fabric#tuesdayvibes
Homecoming ❤️ I made this body of work last year and I’m overjoyed the people I made it for will get to see it. Obviously no one else could have curated it other than @justcallmesimba. Tuonane jumatano ✨ shout out to @call_me_remi_ the cultural hook up and @af_dar for supporting this exhibition - I always wanted to have my first solo at home. Karibuni wote can wait to see you fam! 💃🏾
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#exhibtion#art#daressalaam#fineart#multimedia#video#alliancefrançaise#tanzanianart