Sound
Alexandra Mawimbi — Visual Artist
Sound Works
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My Life2018
Piano, Vocals, Bass played by Alex Mawimbi.
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I Saw Your Heart2018
Piano, Vocals, Bass played by Alex Mawimbi.
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Winter Dreams2018
Piano, Vocals, Bass played by Alex Mawimbi.
Sound occupies a deeply personal place in Alexandra Mawimbi's artistic practice, functioning as a companion to her dimensional sculptures, video, and performance work. Her sound pieces unfold as intimate, almost confessional compositions—piano, vocals, and bass interwoven into spare, evocative textures that mirror the mourning and living themes threaded throughout her broader visual language. Each work feels less like a polished production and more like a captured moment, a portrait rendered in tone rather than image. The result is a body of sound that carries the same quiet, contemplative weight as her installations, inviting listeners to sit with feeling rather than spectacle.
Through these sonic works, Mawimbi extends her exploration of representation and derivation into the auditory realm, where questions of identity and belonging resonate without the need for visual form. The songs function as poems set to music, prayers offered in a minor key, reflections on memory and loss that echo the emotional terrain of her visual practice. There is a rawness to the recordings—a sense that the artist is not performing so much as revealing. In this way, sound becomes another material in her hands, shaped with the same deliberate restraint and emotional honesty that defines her approach across every medium she touches.