and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed

Donna Kukama

and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed, 2019162.5 x 167.5cmSign in to view price
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graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, land, bloodlines, and ancestral voices on canvasblank projects
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This abstract painting features a striking black background with intricate, gestural white lines that create a mesmerizing, almost calligraphic composition. The overall effect is one of dynamic movement and spontaneity, with the monochromatic palette and bold contrasts lending the work a sense of solemnity and contemplation. The artist's distinctive technique, which appears to involve mark-making with a fluid medium, lends the piece a sense of expressive immediacy and raw energy. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of the relationship between form, line, and the emotive power of abstract visual language. ...

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Donna Kukama
Artist
Donna Kukama
B.1981, South African

Donna Kukama is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages performance art as a tool for creative research. Her work presents institutions, monuments, gestures of protest, rumors, and fleeting moments that are as real as they are fictitious. Shifting between performance, video, text, sound, and multimedia installations, her practice takes on a form that is experimental, applying methods that are deliberately undisciplined. She uses performance as a strategy that allows her to invent as well as to apply methods that are outside the canon of what is predictable or expected. She questions how histories are narrated and subverts how value systems are constructed, often centering methods perspectives that originate from the Global South. Through her practice, she weaves major with minor aspects of histories, introducing fragile and brief moments of ‘strangeness’ within sociopolitical settings. Her performances are to be understood as gestures of poetry with a political intent and an urgent need to destabilize existing canons regarding the ways we look at reality. For Kukama, performance becomes a strategy for inserting foreign ‘undocumented’ voices and presences into history by occupying sites and territories that remember less-told stories. ...

Donna Kukama: Artworks
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The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting
Donna Kukama
The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting, 2019
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We can't (and won't) live without our lives
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We can't (and won't) live without our lives, 2019
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uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1
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uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1, 2019
49 x 34cm
Black Fan
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Black Fan, 2018
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364 and still counting
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364 and still counting, 2016
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The soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants
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blank projects
Gallery
blank projects
Cape Town

Based in a 360 sqm gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, blank was founded by Jonathan Garnham as a project space in 2005 and transitioned into a commercial gallery during 2012. The gallery represents emerging and increasingly established artists from the region in a critically engaged programme that emphasises contemporaneity, with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context. With an exhibition programme that has a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South(ern) Africa, and participation in prominent local and international art fairs, we seek to place our artists' work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote the visual arts in our community through ongoing projects that support the sector. ...

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