Tuli Mekondjo, Namibia
Sacred cattle as human soul, 2019
About:
Self-taught artist Tuli Mekondjo works with mixed media (embroidery, collage, paint, resin and mahangu grain – a Namibian food staple) and extends these textured media into performance. Drawing on photographic archives and histories of the loss and erasure of Namibian cultural practices, she explores history and identity politics through the lens of those who lived in exile during Namibia’s independence war. Sensitive botanical vines pay homage to her forebears, fertility and continuity, whilst veiled figures comment on gendered struggle, inter-generational trauma, and displacement, bearing a quiet grief and a quest for truth.
Grandmothers always have wise things to say, 2019
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Too I is of royalty, 2019
Mekondjo was a participant in the Future Africa Visions in Time exhibition, a 2018 collaboration between the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth and the Goethe-Institut Namibia. She exhibited with the NJE Collective at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019, the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018, and Art Market Budapest 2016. In 2019, she exhibited in the women’s show “Suffrage” at Guns & Rain, at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London, and had a solo show with the Project Room in Windhoek. She will be exhibiting in multiple locations in 2020, including at Guns & Rain in April 2020.
Exhibitions, Awards & Collections
Exhibitions
2020 “The Borders of Memory” with Helena Uambembe, The Project Room, Namibia
2020 ARCO Lisboa, Portugal, Online
2020 “The Borders of Memory” with Helena Uambembe, Guns & Rain
2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Guns & Rain
2019 Solo Exhibition, The Project Room, Namibia
2019 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, with Guns & Rain
2019 “Suffrage”, Women’s Group Show, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2019 NJE Collective, Group Show, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town
2018 NJE Collective, Group Show, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg
2016 Collective at the Art Market, Group Show, Budapest
2016 “The Bellowing Mind”, Solo Exhibition, Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre, Namibia
Little moon of witches II, 2019
Collections
Foundation Blachere, France
Ilham Gallery, Malaysia
University of South Africa (UNISA)
ARAK Collection, Qatar
Africa First Collection