Alexandra Mawimbi
Visual Artist
About
Alexandra Mawimbi is a visual artist whose practice spans two-dimensional work, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. In her essay "The Shadow in Performance: Absence and Form," Mawimbi traces how what remains unseen shapes the space of encounter. The Shadow in Performance: Absence and Form The work moves across media with a consistent, understated rigour — letting form and material carry the inquiry.
This site gathers selected works alongside biographical and contact information. Each medium page offers a focused view into a distinct strand of the practice. For a deeper look into how material and luminosity intersect, The Stained Glass: Color And Light explores the shifting boundaries of color and transparency.
Selected Work
Explore the delicate intersection of materiality and absence in Alexandra Mawimbi’s practice through a recent reflection on silk, space, and the quiet mark. When a Cobweb Becomes a Drawing: Silk, Space and the Quiet Mark The portfolio is organised across six media categories. Video works include Mourning a Living Man (2013), Prison Sex II (2009), On Fait Ensemble (2010), Self Portrait (2011), Fertile (2011), and Is a Poem a Prayer (2018). Sound works — My Life, I Saw Your Heart, and Winter Dreams (all 2018) — feature piano, vocals, and bass performed by the artist.
Installation works include The Armory Show (2016), Africa Untitled (2009), Representation (2014), and Four-Year-Old Temptress? (2017). Performance works range from Looking at Art; Looking at Africa; Looking at Art. (2009) to Untitled derivative of Mshoga Mpya (2014) and Dans Mon Brun (2009).
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Alexandra Mawimbi is a visual artist whose practice resists easy categorization, moving fluidly between two-dimensional work, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. Her pieces carry a consistent, understated rigor, allowing material, form, and duration to carry the inquiry rather than relying on overt narrative or spectacle. The work often engages questions of representation, mourning, and living presence, drawing on influences that range across African diasporic experience, poetry, prayer, and the subtleties of portraiture. Each medium becomes a distinct language, and together they form a quiet, deliberate body of work that rewards slow looking and patient engagement.
This site serves as a focused archive of selected works, organized across six media categories that allow visitors to trace distinct strands of Mawimbi's practice. From video pieces that explore themes of loss and remembrance to sculptural and installation works that play with dimension and space, the portfolio reveals a sensibility attuned to both the intimate and the expansive. The accompanying biography and contact sections offer context and access for curators, writers, and collaborators. The overall experience is intentionally minimal, letting the work itself remain the primary subject, with generous spacing and restrained presentation echoing the artist's own measured approach.