Performance

Alexandra Mawimbi — Visual Artist

A dimly lit stage with warm amber and deep burgundy tones, a lone figure in silhouette against a textured backdrop, evoking intimacy and raw presence.
Live performance documentation

Performance Works

  • 2009

    Looking at Art; Looking at Africa; Looking at Art.

    A performance exploring the gaze, identity, and the politics of viewing African art within Western contexts.

  • 2009

    Dans Mon Brun

    A performance work engaging with themes of embodiment, colour, and self-representation.

  • 2010

    Is Free Dumb

    A performance interrogating the paradoxes of freedom, speech, and constraint.

  • 2010

    Untitled Series Curaçao

    A series of untitled performances developed in Curaçao, reflecting on place, displacement, and the body in transit.

  • 2014

    Untitled derivative of Mshoga Mpya

    A performance work derived from Mshoga Mpya, or the New Homosexual, continuing an exploration of queer identity and visibility.

Live Documentation

  • 2013

    Mourning a Living Man

    Filmed at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin. A live performance documentation capturing grief, loss, and the act of mourning someone still alive.

  • 2012

    Untitled

    Performed at Roots Contemporary, Brussels, in January 2012.

  • 2014

    Untitled on sexual abuse

    Presented as part of the East Africa Performing Arts Festival at Goethe Institute Nairobi, curated by Dance.

  • 2015

    Untitled derivative of Mshoga Mpya, or the New Homosexual

    Live documentation filmed as part of the African Odysseys exhibition, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, in Brussels.

A close, textured view of a performance space with deep shadows and soft golden light pooling on a bare floor, suggesting movement and aftermath.
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