Tiemar’s work redefines printmaking, challenging its conventional boundaries while infusing it with new layers of meaning that resonate deeply with both the personal and collective experience.
Dagim Abebe on the work of the Ethiopian artist Tiemar Tegene
These images—mostly made on commission and for the souvenir market—helped shape the perception of Suriname as a prosperous colony but also bear traces of what was typically left out of the frame.
Gamedze, who creates garments under the brand For the Afterlife, confirms that this is a lifetime project, one that she believes will continue to evolve through the sharing of the garments and journaling, just as a book is passed down and shared.
Keke Nkadimeng on the work of Thulile Gamedze
Artistic practices emerge as a place of agency, a place to intervene asymmetries, to reappropriate our own corporeality’s, to decolonize identity constructions and to discover emancipated and committed aesthetics.
