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Jess Atieno
Born in 1991, Nairobi, Kenya
Lives and works in Chicago, United States
Overview
Jess Atieno maintains a practice informed by inquiries on place, home and dispossession through the lens of the postcolonial. Atieno sees herself as carrying inscriptions of a colonial past. Studying as an adult in the US made her increasingly unable to situate herself in a static reality of belonging. With this inspiration, Atieno time travels into history through its material remains: historical photographs, maps and documents, employing them in prints, installations and tapestry. She turns to...Read more
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Jess Atieno
Look, see, I have clothed myself in your love II, 2023
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Jess Atieno
In the time of kings & queens, 2023
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I contain multitudes, 2023
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Jess Atieno
He gathers the loaters of the sea into jars. He puts the deep into storehouse, 2023
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Jess Atieno
Fragments (II), 2023
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Fragments (III), 2023
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Fragments (I), 2023
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Jess Atieno
Weight of whispers, 2021
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Jess Atieno
Trance II, 2022
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Trance I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
This Is my body, which Is given for you II, 2022
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Jess Atieno
This Is my body, which Is given for you I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
The Weight of Whispers, 2021
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Jess Atieno
Tangents of place, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Take me to your river, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Place, Belonging II, 2022
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Place, Belonging I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Past is Prologue IV, 2022
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Past is Prologue III, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Past is Prologue II, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Past is Prologue I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Past is Prologue, 2021
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Jess Atieno
Of Ghostly Silences And Constant Yearnings II, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Of Ghostly Silences and Constant Yearnings
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Jess Atieno
Memories of this place II, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Memories of this place I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
It is kind of you to take off your hat, 2020
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Jess Atieno
Ibada, 2023
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Jess Atieno
I am the glory that you seek, the destruction, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Hauntings II, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Hauntings I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Broken to be made whole, 2022
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Jess Atieno
Bikra, 2023
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Jess Atieno
Of Ghostly Silences And Constant Yearnings I, 2022
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Jess Atieno
It is kind of you to take off your hat, 2020
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Jess Atieno
I also don’t know, 2020
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