Alexandra Mawimbi
Visual Artist
About
Alexandra Mawimbi is a visual artist whose practice spans two-dimensional work, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. The essay When Presence Takes The Form Of Absence explores how absence itself can become a tangible, living presence—a reflection central to the artist's practice. 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. In her new text, Alexandra Mawimbi explores the temporal and tactile dimensions of weaving as a practice of endurance and presence. Read the essay The Language of Rush: Weaving as Time for a deeper reflection on how handmade rhythm becomes a language of its own.
Selected Work
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.