Alexandra Mawimbi
Visual Artist
About
Alexandra Mawimbi is a visual artist whose practice spans two-dimensional work, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. The question of how to sustain art that lives and breathes is explored further in Living art and the labour of keeping it alive. 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. A reflection on the space where preparation meets presence—when rehearsal dissolves into the act itself. Read more in the article, When Rehearsal Becomes the Performance Itself.
Selected Work
In a recent reflection, Alexandra considers the journey of her work beyond the studio. Read more in When Work Leaves the Studio and Enters a Collection. 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.