Coumba Samba

Coumba Samba transforms discarded materials into powerful reflections on colonial legacies and global capitalism. Using found objects, installation, painting, and performative elements, she traces the movement and transformation of goods circulating between Western and African contexts. Her work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture and global trade, revealing how objects carry histories of power, displacement, and economic imbalance. By reconfiguring everyday items like radiators or debris, Samba highlights tensions between permanence and fragility, utility and obsolescence. With bold colors, textures, and immersive environments, she challenges viewers to rethink the social and political systems that shape contemporary life. Her work invites reflection on identity, technology, and the ongoing impact of colonial structures today. By blending materiality with critical inquiry, Samba creates spaces that reveal complex intersections of history, memory, and cultural narratives, encouraging audiences to engage with the global forces shaping both individual and collective experiences. ...